August Rush

Simultaneously swooningly romantic and transcendently idiotic, August Rush casts Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a gaunt faced bar rocker who meets cute with violinist Keri Russell and shares a blissful idyll far too magical to last. ( Read More )

Marc Savlov

Not exactly what Id expected from the director of the woefully underseen Trainspotting meets Teletubbies macropiece Disco Pigs.Instead, August Rush is a rather prosaic, oddly anxious, contemporary take on Dickens Oliver Twist, with Williams in nasty man twee mode, a newish one for him thrown in for bad measure. ( Read More )

Lee Marshall

Those who are prepared to forgive the film its stock characters and lack of emotional subtlety may allow themselves to be ravished by the sumptuous soundtrack, if nothing else. ( Read More )

Brian Orndorf

The cinematic flair of August Rush is not applied by paint strokes, but via a sopping wet roller. ( Read More )

After the Oscar legitimacy of his ode to Douglas Sirk, Far From Heaven, Haynes couldve burrowed deeper underground or sold out entirely: Instead, hes created a dazzling hybrid. ( Read More )