Music Within
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: October 26, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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9
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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70
VarietyJohn Anderson
Helmed by Steve Sawalich, this real-life dramedy is anchored by Michael Sheen’s captivating performance as the severely handicapped, profoundly acerbic Art Honeyman. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Steven Sawalich directed with invention and heart. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Livingston and director Steven Sawalich keep the character in constant motion, his dialogue sprinkled with humor and his energy contagious. The film also is surrounded by a crew of ferociously individualistic characters. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
Starts strong but eventually collapses under its weighty sense of responsibility. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Just remember that its hero stands for countless others. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The performances are all solid, but Sheen, last seen as Tony Blair in "The Queen," is so good in his incredibly demanding role that he makes the natural discomfort people feel at seeing someone so debilitated disappear completely. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
It's everything it ought to be: right-minded, well-intentioned, compassionate. But it doesn't rise above made-for-cable public service announcement, either. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Movies often don't do their stories justice, and that has happened again here. The main problem is a tone that jarringly switches from a kind of Forrest Gump-style narrative to a more generic biopic. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
As with many biopics, Richard is seen as the perfect hero, a man who singlehandedly changed the way the United States treats its disabled citizens. That's a bit of a stretch. Read full review
60
Village VoiceRobert Wilonsky
Sheen, like the movie itself, is trying too hard to inspire when the story doesn't need the help. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
If it does nothing else, Music Within shows us how deeply Ron Livingston's amiable face can take us into a movie. But even likable mugs like his -- remember him in "Office Space"? -- need help from the movies around them. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
A bad movie with a good heart. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
It must have sounded great on paper. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
The result is that they never truly find the innate drama in Pimentel's story, instead simply recounting four or five decades' worth of events that shaped the man. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
Rarely rises above the level of a TV movie. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
It gives me no pleasure to report that the Pimentel biopic Music Within plays like a well-intentioned TV movie. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Sheen is often the saving grace of Music Within, thanks to an aggressively profane wit that gives an otherwise tapioca-bland story a little edge. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
The combined efforts of three novice screenwriters fail to give shape to a life that was, although devoted to a noble cause, unexceptional. Read full review
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