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02/22/08
August Rush (2007)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:44
Rotten:72
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Though featuring a talented cast, August Rush cannot overcome the flimsy direction and schmaltzy plot.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Feb 21, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $31,529,568
Synopsis: AUGUST RUSH is part romance, part gentle fantasy, but this sweet drama is all heart. When young cellist Lyla (Keri Russell) and rock musician Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) meet at a party in the mid... [More]
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Robin Williams, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Reviews for August Rush
Top CriticIt's far-fetched and a leap of faith of Olympic proportions is required to keep abreast of the plot, but August Rush does deliver some charming moments, largely due to charismatic performances from Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers
02/14/08
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04/03/08
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11/24/07
Top CriticIf you can stomach an ultra- contrived plot with a ridiculously schmaltzy finale, August Rush will be music to your ears.
11/23/07
Top CriticWhile many films require a suspension of disbelief, August Rush asks viewers to terminate their disbelief without severance and have security escort it from the building.
05/01/08
An exercise in dissonance.
11/21/07
Heavy-handed, undeniably saccharine, and about as magical as a clown at a kid's party, August Rush is an implausible, pus-covered pixie stick.
11/20/07
Cloying, annoying, and absurd. And that doesn't even include Robin Williams.
11/24/07
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11/23/07
The abruptness of the picture as it leaps from character to character is unsettling, revealing that either Rush had a 30-hour rough cut or Sheridan just didn't know where to take a stand with the film's focal point.
11/20/07
The excellent actors and good music make you think the movie will get better as it progresses, but it never does.
01/02/08
August Rush feels like the cinematic equivalent of being stuffed with fruitcake and doused with a gallon of egg nog.
11/21/07
Top CriticWith its musical themes for individual characters that come together symphonically at the climax, the music is so persuasive that it carries the narrative rather than complementing it.
11/20/07
A perfect example of everything wrong about Hollywood films, "August Rush" is an obstinately perverse, hammy piece of instant-gratification cinema that weeps from the screen as so much emotional sludge.
11/23/07
Seems to want to wear its schmaltz on its breast pocket as if it were a medal of honor.
11/21/07
Intended as a fuzzy family fable, August plays more to the gag reflex than to the heart.
11/21/07
Top CriticIf sentimentality were a cymbal, it'd be like having a percussionist standing right behind you and crashing every other beat.
11/21/07
Slight, uneven and not very memorable. Just as the viewer's heart is intended to soar, mine was left lukewarm and wishing that it cared more.
11/20/07
In spite of its flabbergasting self-absorption, August Rush's devotion to following through on its screwy internal logic is almost genius.
11/18/07
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