Sing Street

Carney's story is pretty basic and perfunctory and in all honestly wouldn't look out of place in a much lesser film, so it's credit to him that everything else in 'Sing Street' is so on-point that it's not an issue. The music is good, the casting is spot on, the performances admirable and it's stylish too. A grown up take on a teenage story with some real nuggets of excellence strewn throughout.

This movie was so uplifting I wrote a song about it.

For decades musicians have shared why they got into music in the first place & they always say the same 3 things: they wanted the girls; they wanted to escape; & "music saved my life". Other films may have captured some of that, but there's never been a film that better conveys all of that & how profoundly exciting it feels to be so young & seemingly helpless, but slowly discover that you're capable of having a power you could scarcely imagine before.

Had me right up until the overly grandiose ending. Incredibly easy to fall in love with this movie, as it mostly does everything right. Actually, when Cosmo was in his Robert Smith phase- I probably would've given this a 95. A few missteps being the disturbing priest/principal sideplot and the aforementioned sore-thumb finale. Might be the first Carney movie to warrant a sequel.

A wonderful coming of age musical that will make even the cold-hearted smile! Director John Carney should continue to make musicals indefinitely (he also made Once and Begin Again) There's a bit of suspension of disbelief in just how a bunch of rag tag 15 year olds can make such good music off the cuff, but it works well. I loved how each song was inspired by what new music the main character was listening to at the time. The music video for Riddle of the Model was so fucking spot on 80's.