...the picture grows increasingly engrossing as it builds towards its tremendously satisfying finale...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2023

I highly recommend the film for those seeking inspiration, motivation, and affirmation of the power that one person can have on the life of another.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

The vacuous but well-meaning pic is poorly executed and seems as if it were a 온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 4, 2015

Touching story about a determined teacher has mature themes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2014

Meryl Streep received yet another Oscar nomination for this conventional biopic of the Harlem music teacher, directed by no other than horror maestro wes Craven.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 12, 2013

Meryl dominates the proceedings. She simply disappears into the role, and the movie, for all its educational impulses, becomes about watching her do it.

| Jun 24, 2006

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 9, 2005

Doesn't revolve around a self-centered main character or possess the schmaltz of Mr. Holland's Opus.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 2, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 14, 2003

Novice writer Pamela Gray has pumped this already-amazing story full of melodramatic embellishment and, in so doing, all but ruined its impact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The standard plotline of a teacher bearing the torch of liberal enlightenment to an educationally bereft group comes off rather dubiously here.

| Dec 2, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2002

The inspiring true story of teacher Roberta Guaspari is given a conventional treatment in this decidedly uninspiring drama.

| Jun 5, 2002

Audience-pleasing Music certainly is, but whether it comes from the heart or directly from the tearducts is another question.

| Mar 24, 2002

You might be able to tell what direction the movie's headed in, but you'll never outguess Streep.

| Original Score: short | Mar 7, 2002

A woman at the end of her rope after she is deserted by her husband finds a path of the heart that enables her to share her gift with the world.

| Mar 4, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2001

Music of the Heart is nothing if not a change of pace, and, unfortunately, Craven doesn't appear entirely comfortable in these new surroundings.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Why make a big, glossy Hollywood movie of this story? The 1996 documentary, Small Wonders, already captured the magic of Roberta and her devoted students.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Streep's extraordinary performance makes this the rare inspirational movie that actually is, well, inspirational.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000