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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 25 Jun 2014

It's rare to find a movie that uses music to define love without sentimentalizing it…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 25 Jun 2014

Begin Again is all about the untrammeled joys of music, but like a hit pop song, it works better in the emotions than it does through any close…

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By Keith Staskiewicz (60) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Jun 2014

Once was a small and well-loved heirloom, its imperfections part of the charm. But Begin Again has been burnished to a shiny dullness…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Jun 2014

Compared with “Once,” Begin Again is a bit like the disappointing, overly produced follow-up to a new band’s breakthrough album…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 25 Jun 2014

Knightley does fine work, but she’s been miscast. Her innate sophistication undermines the movie’s intentions right off the bat…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 24 Jun 2014

Writer-director John Carney re-plays his greatest hit with Begin Again, a semi-successful attempt to recreate the magic of the Oscar-winning…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon (312) on 24 Jun 2014

This film is never less than pleasant to spend time with, and that’s not a minor consideration when it comes to summer moviegoing…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Jun 2014

True to its title, Begin Again periodically restarts itself, nestling flashbacks within flashbacks; it’s an unnecessarily complicated structure…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 24 Jun 2014

If “Once” was a bracing blast of cool spring water, Begin Again is a can of Fanta. If “Once” was a piano, Begin Again is a keytar…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 24 Jun 2014

The lugubrious pop songs by Gregg Alexander are execrable. Ms. Knightley isn’t remotely believable as a bike-riding pop singer…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Jun 2014

All that prickly inner conflict Ruffalo is so adept at suggesting…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2014

False moments far outweigh the genuine ones, be it smarmy Dan’s indisputable genius (he’s such a stubble-sporting rebel, he refuses to…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 22 Jun 2014

Begin Again is a joyous movie about the good things in life: love, family, relationships, New York, creativity and music…

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By David Lee Dallas (23) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Jun 2014

It's a film that lives in the high and not in the comedown, even though its characters are often stalled and wallowing…

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By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 30 May 2014

John Carney, who wrote and directed Once, has made another great film that focuses on songwriters and the way their lives influence their work…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Sep 2013

A film that lays emotions on the line and then drives them home with music…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Sep 2013

The film’s quiet pleasures creep up on you…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 13 Sep 2013

As a whole, Begin Again is a fairly mannered treatment of an expressive medium…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2013

Since the music doesn't connect like it should, everything else that is underpinned in the story by these songs also doesn't come together…

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By Paul Macinnes (19) for The Guardian (2,969) on 13 Sep 2013

The film's sole saving grace is, of course, Ruffalo…

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