The movie hurts. It stings. Too many simply remember it as some happy-go-lucky singalong, but absolutely not. The Sound of Music breaks your heart.

| Mar 10, 2025

The Sound of Music may be schmaltz, but it’s irresistible schmaltz.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2024

Whether you enjoy it as a fun family singalong or a moving true story, this classic still bounces along in a tremendously likeable fashion.

| Dec 27, 2023

Of course, it's well done for what it is: that is to say, those who made it are experts at manipulating responses. They're the Pavlovs of moviemaking: they turn us into dogs that salivate on signal.

| Sep 20, 2023

Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music is a film that has resonated with audiences spanning several generations. If you don’t sing along to every word of the gorgeous Rodgers & Hammerstein soundtrack, what fan of movies are you really?

| Jun 8, 2023

The Sound of Music makes up for its unbelievably idealized ending with enough heartfelt joy to keep the whole family happy.

| Feb 2, 2023

It is not a bold, adventuresome motion picture, nor does it advance the art of the film even a trifle. What it is, and this is what the producers must have intended, is tuneful, uncomplicated entertainment, expensively set before the viewer.

| Mar 30, 2022

Singing nuns and gun-toting Nazis - something for everyone.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 7, 2021

Julie ignores the dated postulates of the script, gives it her own brand of vigor, logic, gaiety and crisp authority -- and brings the screen alive, pulling the drama along with her.

| Sep 2, 2020

There's something magical about conversations that morph into songs, especially considering that the typical dancing that accompanies such skits is refreshingly truant.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 27, 2020

South Pacific, The King and I, West Side Story: They have all been a little embarrassing, but [this] is more embarrassing than most, if only because of its suggestion that history need not happen to people like Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

| Mar 4, 2020

The last of the Rodgers-Hammer-stein collaborations, The Sound of Music is the best screen version of their works.

| Feb 5, 2020

Pure, unadulterated kitsch, not a false note, not a whiff of reality; and every detail so carefully worked out... I came out full of goodwill toward all humanity.

| Aug 14, 2019

Robert Wise is responsible for this overly sugary cake that must be listened to with earplugs. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 9, 2019

Overall, the film never feels like it was built for anyone to really look deeply at it which is why it is so confusing as to why it is so beloved to this day.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 24, 2019

Just about a perfect movie.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 4, 2019

There's an inimitable heart-warming quality about the film which has made The Sound of Music a timeless cinematic wonder.

| Dec 20, 2018

By any reasonable critical analysis, The Sound of Music is a terrible movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 16, 2018

It's totally schmaltzy and highly effective.

| Oct 19, 2018

The location work in Salzburg has an ineffable charm and it's all performed with such zinging, joyous energy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 17, 2018