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79
Viewer score based on 22 votes.

Critic Score

88
Critics' score based on 33 reviews.
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June 06,2009
gowil777

This movie was beautiful! It will speak to you if you've ever take the path MORE traveled rather than the one less traveled. Or I guess if you've... r put your heart 2nd. Full Review

May 27,2009
coverdinrane

If nothing else this film holds merit fot the unbelievable soundtrack. I know I will not watch it again but thie music will stay with me forever.... l done!!!!!! Full Review

November 16,2008
LDHelfand

I loved the movie and, LOVED the music. Can't get it out of my mind... I'm glad to say.

July 05,2008
LVera83733

Way to take home the OSCAR for best song....reminded me of Keith Carradine and "Im Easy"....so refreshing to see two lovely musicians play... .and with a beat up 6-string to boot....the older the violin...the sweeter the music.. Full Review

May 22,2008
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Critic Reviews

Once is the first rock musical that actually makes sense. People don't burst into song in this movie because the orchestra's swelling out of nowhere. The guy and the girl are working musicians -- or they'd like to be, if they could make a living at it -- and they're played by working musicians.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Once is the kind of film I've been pestered about ever since I started reviewing again. People couldn't quite describe it, but they said I had to see it. I had to. Well, I did. They were right.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

In its own subdued, mellow way, Once is just about perfect.Full Review

Nathan Rabin
The Onion (A.V. Club)

The music is so rich and completely satisfying and the characters so appealing Once makes us believe that this is all happening right in front of our eyes. We fall for each of these young people at the precise moment they are falling for each other, and what could be better than that?Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Once proves to be as smart and funny as it is sweet; it swirls with ambiguity and conflict beneath a simple surface. In all of 88 minutes, Mr. Carney's singular fable follows its guy and girl through a week of musical and emotional growth that could suffice for a lifetime.Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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