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Article: 'August Rush' a workout for heartstrings.(Life-Screens)(Movie review)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 23, 2007
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Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI - Houston Chronicle
Films are designed to yank our chains: That's axiomatic. But some wrench down so hard on so many dangling mechanisms (ropes, cables, levers) that it's a wonder we don't crash through the floor and into the mezzanine, popcorn stuck in our hair.
Such a film is "August Rush," which yanked every chain I own. Yet every single time, despite my every noble effort to resist it, a tingle ran down my spine, and my eyes filmed with saline. I resented director Kirsten Sheridan ("Disco Pigs") for doing this to me - for stripping me of my discerning critical faculties, as though someone finally read the "Kick Me, I'm a Hopeless Pathetic ...