Music is less a person than a sympathetic vessel who is saddled with an oversimplified and loving worldview to impart to others, and as a result, the film lets the side down in its depiction of autistic people.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2024

It’s the definition of a vanity project, and the fact that it uses autism as a means to an end makes it a particularly putrid one.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 14, 2024

the real issue is that, though the movie is centred and even takes its name from a nonverbal teenager who's on the low-functioning side of the autism spectrum, it doesn't seem to care about exploring who she really is.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 18, 2023

For those buying into the manipulation, the film is padded with fantasy sequences that double as music videos for pop star Sia, whose directorial debut feels more self-indulgent than sincere.

| Jul 13, 2023

Offensive and poorly judged, it intends to be inspirational but merely inspires confusion.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jul 11, 2022

What is the distance between trailblazer and tragically out of touch? In the case of singer, songwriter and pop-cultural maverick Sia, the answer is the length of her debut as director.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 1, 2021

Music is a disastrous attempt at being a sprawling musical about a community of misfits. It comes off as not only incoherent, misguided and self-indulgent, but also devoid of empathy, patience or understanding of its subject matter.

| Sep 16, 2021

It's a debacle.

| Aug 9, 2021

Not only does Music fail to sing, it fails to even carry a tune. Don't quit your day job, Sia.

| Jun 6, 2021

Sia's clumsy drama hits all the wrong notes...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 22, 2021

Music is more than just a trainwreck of Sia's first frustrating attempt at a feature. It represents the depressing realization of just how misinformed the public still is about autism and how dangerous the misinformation in media is turning out to be.

| Apr 16, 2021

Other than the performances, there is nothing redeeming about this complete mess.

| Original Score: 1.5/10 | Mar 5, 2021

Despite talented cast, drama is a misguided look at autism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Despite being intercut with extremely Sia-esque singing and dancing vignettes, the story is all too familiar and the script very ropey. Hudson does what she can with a cliché.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2021

There's so much that this movie gets wrong about the community that is searching to uplift.

| Feb 25, 2021

A completely misguided mess.

| Feb 25, 2021

Hudson goes to some emotionally raw and dark places, and really puts it out there in the song-and-dance department too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2021

Lacking any direction, Sia slips bits of each and every style in at random and fails to achieve any of them.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 22, 2021

Sia isn't the first musician to try her hand at filmmaking. Music is barely a movie, however.

| Feb 21, 2021

It's pitiful stuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2021