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

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

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

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

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

All inspiring stuff, but Music Within is strictly by the numbers, even down to the predictable mood-setting period soundtrack numbers

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Music Within never establishes a consistent tone, going from achingly sincere to borderline farcical, often in the same scene.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

A fascinating story of compassion, grit and determination.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

[The filmmakers] make the common error of attempting to cover every seemingly significant moment in the man's life rather than focusing on the greatest conflicts.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 26, 2007

What bothers me is that Music Within takes an individual story, an inspiring one, yes, and then thinks that's all there is to be told.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

It's everything it ought to be: right-minded, well-intentioned, compassionate. But it doesn't rise above made-for-cable public service announcement, either.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Steven Sawalich's directorial debut, Music Within, works marginally well when it stays small. Unfortunately, the life story of disabled-rights activist Richard Pimentel begs for a larger-than-life treatment.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 25, 2007

Music Within, which tries to use a lighthearted tone and ironic narration to belie its deeper implications, never gives Livingston strong enough material to make more affecting use of his presence.

| Oct 25, 2007

A well-intentioned biopic about disability crusader Richard Pimentel that starts strong but eventually collapses under its weighty sense of responsibility.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2007

There may be an interesting movie in all of this, but too much is filtered through the hero's voice-over narration, always a recipe for squashing the life out of a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 25, 2007

Sheen, like the movie itself, is trying too hard to inspire when the story doesn't need the help.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2007

Music Within convincingly delivers the message that disabilities are everyone's concern.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2007

Sawalich's 온라인카지노추천 movie-grade direction isn't up to the task of enlivening material that eventually settles into a predictable, torpid narrative structure.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2007