| Original Score: B+ | Apr 21, 2012

If it...verges on being just slightly patronising at times, that's a quarrel with the filmmakers, not its participants.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2008

It's a pity that director Stephen Walker, who also narrates, imposes so much of himself on the material, asking at times the most insensitive questions.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2008

As an interviewer Walker is habitually condescending and sometimes downright inane...

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 17, 2008

The wonderful members of the choir, truly young at heart, overcome the occasional clumsiness of the filmmaker and you come away from this film feeling genuinely uplifted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2008

The devil may have all the best tunes, but it's the elderly who nail them. Charming, heartwarming and totally kick-ass, you'll never look at your grandparents in the same way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2008

That might be because the film has already been shown on the BBC - a fact that, along with the unprepossessing production values, rather begs the question of why bother with a cinematic release at all?

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

A lovely little film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2008

A worse film might be dismissed as sobsploitation. But Stephen Walker's documentary - a labour of love inspired by Walker's first sight of the group in a London West End show - touches the mind as well as the heart.

| Oct 17, 2008

That not all of them do sadly lends a much-needed emotional depth to a doc that, odd beautiful moments aside, can feel like a solid reality 온라인카지노추천 hour stretched out to 108 minutes. Bring hankies.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2008

They more than justify a film which, despite its faults, makes the winter of life less terrifying than it's made out to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2008

A more genuinely sweet and uplifting documentary I have not seen in quite a while.

| Original Score: A- | May 26, 2008

An undeniably sweet mix of disarming honesty, inspired gumption and brutal reality, Young@Heart somehow manages to avoid the maudlin while enhancing the obvious with its portrait of a chorus of senior citizens who sing contemporary rock songs.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 25, 2008

In many ways, this serious side of Young@Heart is what ultimately makes the film memorable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2008

A chorus (average age 80) prepares for a springtime tour, putting their signature spin on classics--classics like The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2008

The project reeks of commercial calculation, which is just tolerable until Walker, in search of a story arc, follows two chorus members with serious illnesses into the hospital.

| Apr 18, 2008

One of the most remarkable scenes you will ever see in a documentary is the chorus of elderly men and women -- average age of 80 -- singing Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young' before convicts in a Massachusetts penitentiary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2008

It's an emotional tapestry, sure to both delight audiences and move them to tears.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2008

The film's emotional peak comes at the end when the chorus performs for prison inmates who must be, on average, well under half the age of the singers. It's a liberating experience, for both sides.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2008

The doc may indeed be too cute for some, but Walker knows when to step back and let life, with all its harshness and disappointments, into the picture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2008