The deeply personal pulse that makes this movie tick is nourishment to the soul.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 17, 2024

I cannot recommend Hearts Beat Loud enough. While the screenplay lacks exposition, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have nuance. There are many layers to these characters that come about in ways that are somewhat unexpected.

| Original Score: A | Aug 7, 2024

The music is wonderful, and I was upset its title song was not on the Oscar shortlist.

| Jul 8, 2024

Hearts Beat Loud is a feel-good with surprising heart and skillfully placed moment of moving melancholy (looking at you Blythe Danner).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

...a lesser Band-Aid, that every fan of Eighth Grade should see...

| Original Score: 66/100 | Aug 22, 2021

When Sam and Frank are jamming together, the movie soars.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 21, 2021

Hearts Beat Loud is really a lovely film.

| Dec 10, 2020

Hearts Beat Loud is one of the warmest films I've seen in a long time and one of the best of 2018.

| Nov 10, 2020

An intimate and comfortingly familiar tale that hits the right notes, just so long as you can live with a low-key ditty and don't expect any sweeping crescendo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2020

[S]ome moments overvalue sweetness instead of substance. Be that as it may, I cared. I cared about these characters, and I cared about their journey.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

This could easily fall into unbearably cutesy, twee indie dramedy territory, but Brett Haley's film is joyous, heartfelt, and altogether wonderful.

| Original Score: A | Jul 1, 2020

Director Haley (who co-wrote with his regular writing partner Marc Basch) allows us to settle into this low-stakes, high-emotion journey with these characters and enjoy their music along with the rest of the world.

| Jun 15, 2020

A sweet, heartwarming drama.

| Jun 2, 2020

Hearts Beat Loud, despite being somehow a conventional dramedy, is novel in its approach of the subject depicting a blossoming romance between two millennial, queer, women of color.

| Aug 6, 2019

(Written by Greg Wetherall) A solid, well-intentioned thrum on the heartstrings, given warm overtones by some fine performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2019

I honestly found it kind of boring...

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 26, 2019

A lovely warm hug that features tender performances and sweet songs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2019

A wonderful look at the complex, fragile father-daughter relationship, and the binding thread that is music.

| Jan 1, 2019

A beautifully low-key, heartfelt, small scale story of how music aids us in speaking our inner truth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2018

Hearts Beat Loud is not only a tribute to the joy that music can bring, but it is also a celebration of the bond between a daughter and her father.

| Dec 14, 2018