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  Movie Review for Music Within

Movie Review for
Music Within



Music Within
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18 Reviews total.

Release date: 10/26/2007
Run length: Unknown.
Categories: Drama , Biopic , War

Summary: The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant speaker with a troubled past. Pimentel returns from a tour of duty in Vietnam, his hearing severely impaired and finds true purpose and meaning in his life working on behalf of Americans with disabilities.

                         Reviews of Music Within

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Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (7/0)
            It's everything it ought to be: right-minded, well-intentioned, compassionate. But it doesn't ris...

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Chad Greene of Boxoffice Magazine (7/0)
            Unfortunately, the cast and crew of Music Within don’t get much of their own music out here -- at...

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Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            ...an entertaining, sometimes inspiring film...

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Matt Pais of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Immensely likable and only occasionally too earnest...

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Brandon Fibbs of Christianity Today (7/0)
            The low-budget Music Within may not entirely work on the outside, but at its core beats a very fu...

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Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            Like a quirky poor man's version of The World According to Garp or Forrest Gump, it's hard to bel...

                         Reviews of Music Within
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Erik Childress of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Its near impossible to even faint praise a film for having its heart in the right place when it o...

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Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            When the subject is not well-known, and the film about his life is unremarkable, the whole thing ...

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Frank Lovece of Film Journal International (7/0)
            Sheen is absolutely remarkable, and you hope the film gets enough attention to render him a much-...

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Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            An upbeat, lively take on potentially downbeat material.

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Liz Braun of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            If you're looking for one-dimensional, uplifting pap, Music Within fits the bill. It's watchable....

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Matt Zoller Seitz of New York Times (7/0)
            A bad movie with a good heart...

                         Reviews of Music Within
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Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            This is a heroic tale in many respects, but it's handled here with the heavy hand of television-q...

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Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters (7/0)
            With period songs galore to tell you exactly what's going on inside protagonist Richard Pimentel ...

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Adam Fendelman of HollywoodChicago.com (3/4) No reference
            Second-time director Steven Sawalich's "music" presumably still resides inside him because it doe...

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Marta Barber of Miami Herald (3/4) No reference
            Salawich's film is entertaining and leaves you with warm feelings from learning about this man wh...

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M.E. Russell of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
            It gives me no pleasure to report that the [Richard] Pimentel biopic Music Within plays like a we...

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Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (6/1) Not Reachable
            It hits some of the right notes, but at the wrong time and the overall effect is a song out of tu...

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The Music Within
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