A film that lays emotions on the line and then drives them home with music.
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Empire
Empire
Begin Again is a joyous movie about the good things in life: love, family, relationships, New York, creativity and music. And Knightley and Ruffalo make for one of the most unusual engaging couples of the year.
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Slant MagazineDavid Lee Dallas
Slant MagazineDavid Lee Dallas
It's a film that lives in the high and not in the comedown, even though its characters are often stalled and wallowing.
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 with the weight or power Carney surely intended.
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Village VoiceAlan Scherstuhl
Village VoiceAlan Scherstuhl
All that prickly inner conflict Ruffalo is so adept at suggesting? Cheery Begin Again wants none of it, offering instead lots of scenes of two characters we don't believe could ever exist arguing about authenticity in pop music.