In the end, they were both strangers guided by the kindness they showed one another. And I bet youve forgotten what resolution the camera quality is by the end credits.

| Feb 21, 2022

Effectively capturing the world of street musicians, writer-director John Carney hit gold in a story of talented artists seeking the big time in little venues. Wistful romance and memorable music proved flexible enough for a move from film to stage...

| Aug 11, 2021

A simple miracle of a film.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

Movies like this don't come along very often, and Once is really something special.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 6, 2019

The simple and real love story will stay with you.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2018

If "The Commitments" shows the gritty, robust side of Dublin and the Irish music scene, "Once" shows us a softer, more romantic side.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 18, 2014

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

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Oct 10, 2011

At once delicate and gritty, wistful and deeply satisfying.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 29, 2008

So this is how you make a low-budget musical these days!

| Oct 18, 2008

There is much to admire about Once, in a little-movie-that-could kind of way, but it can't help but get in its own way just when it begins to gain some momentum

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

In an era when Hollywood has largely lost the ability to distinguish between romance and sex, Once is the rare film that recognizes that love is no less love for being held in check, it is merely a different kind of love.

| Sep 18, 2008

my biggest road block was the fact that I didn't like the music

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2008

It has its own peculiar naturalism, a kind of lo-fi, lovelorn charm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Um filme mágico que, através de sua narrativa enganosamente simples, alcança uma vitória que escapa à maioria das obras do gênero, retratando com sentimento o instante preciso no qual dois seres humanos se descobrem apaixonados um pelo outro.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 19, 2008

Once is the anti-blockbuster that couldn't have come at a better time.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 28, 2008

a tender little ultralow budget movie about the intimate connection of making music...the warm folkiness of the songs and their generally non-narrative-pushing content make it feel more like a long, lovely home movie of a short portion of two people's liv

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2008

Un effort battant la mesure d'une manière somme toute imparfaite, mais néanmoins prenante, qu'un genre aussi excessif que le film musical a besoin de temps à autre...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 16, 2008

A moving story about two people who share a common love of music.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 2, 2008

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 26, 2008