| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Low on drama, but funny, with interesting characters, good performances and is uplifting without being too sweet.

| Original Score: B | Nov 30, 2007

It's just too bad that the pious treatment given the deserving Pimentel never translated into a more engaging film.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 29, 2007

With period songs galore to tell you exactly what's going on inside protagonist Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston), you hardly need plot or dialogue.

| Nov 14, 2007

The real world needs more dogged folks willing to tilt at windmills. But movies often don't do their stories justice, and that has happened again here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Pimentel's persistence and eventual triumph over prejudice and discrimination is a story worth telling, if only on a shoestring.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2007

It gives me no pleasure to report that the [Richard] Pimentel biopic Music Within plays like a well-intentioned 온라인카지노추천 movie.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 9, 2007

Salawich's film is entertaining and leaves you with warm feelings from learning about this man who turned adversity into good for so many others.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2007

If you're looking for one-dimensional, uplifting pap, Music Within fits the bill. It's watchable. Pimentel is obviously a really interesting guy, and it's a shame his tale wasn't told with a bit more flair.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

...an agreeable though entirely uneven piece of work...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2007

When the subject is not well-known, and the film about his life is unremarkable, the whole thing starts to feel like an exercise in futility.

| Original Score: C | Nov 8, 2007

Both Pimental and the audience would have been better served if his life were told as a PBS documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 7, 2007

This offbeat biopic is driven by Ron Livingston's engaging performance as Richard Pimentel, a gifted public speaker who lost his hearing in the Vietnam war and then spearheaded the disability rights movement in the U.S.

| Nov 2, 2007

The low-budget Music Within may not entirely work on the outside, but at its core beats a very funny, very smart and very moving heart of gold.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2007

This is a nice little well-meaning idea for a movie, but even with three writers on the payroll, it never really catches fire.

| Oct 31, 2007

I wanted to like this film

Full Review | Oct 29, 2007

This is a heroic tale in many respects, but it's handled here with the heavy hand of television-quality hagiography.

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 27, 2007

It hits some of the right notes, but at the wrong time and the overall effect is a song out of tune.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 27, 2007