It is a simple, familiar story brought to life uniquely and touchingly.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Boarding school antics and the power of music.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

So infused with nostalgia, optimism and authenticity, it will prove irresistible to the older art-house demographic.

| Mar 1, 2007

Les Choristes isn't quite as forced and syrupy as Mr. Holland's Opus or Music of the Heart, but it's not a classic like To Sir with Love or Goodbye, Mr. Chips either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The Chorus resonates through the brie.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 18, 2005

even the most formulaic films can be rescued when formulas are applied by real talents

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 12, 2005

Un peu de rose bonbon, a se prend bien de temps en temps, mme dans le monde du cinma.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 25, 2005

Dudo que Los Coristas deje alguna huella en el espectador por demasiado tiempo, pero sin duda saldremos del cine con una sonrisa en los labios (...)

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 4, 2005

The way that it embraces convention rather than invention makes Mr. Holland's Opus look like Pulp Fiction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2005

The story has a lot of unexpected twists and turns.

| Original Score: B | Apr 13, 2005

Somehow with all the heartstrings pulled, I didn't feel anything more than being manipulated.

| Original Score: C | Apr 3, 2005

The pudgy, nondescript Jugnot certainly doesn't look like leading-man material, but he delivers a low-key, carefully modulated performance and droll humor to finesse the movie's melodramatic streak and send us out flicking away a tear.

| Apr 1, 2005

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 26, 2005

The Chorus is a fresh permutation on the Dead Poet's Society type theme.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 24, 2005

The premise may seem a little hokey, but Barratier's characters are too endearing to be dismissed with cynicism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2005

This is a movie fraught with clichs, yet also so full of beautiful music and innocent merriness that its more mawkish attributes are overlooked.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 16, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2005