Songcatcher Critic Reviews
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It's a highly professional project complete with exquisite production details and superb actors, yet its subject matter is so far out of the mainstream, it feels almost radical.Read the full review
Has enough virtues to make it successful, including an unusual story and some fine acting, especially by the powerful Janet McTeer.Read the full review
McTeer and the transporting music hold you in thrall.Read the full review
The haunting beauty of the music, and the people who produce it – that's the chapter and verse of this story.Read the full review
Somewhat sanitized but gorgeous Americana, with another impressive turn by McTeer.Read the full review
Perhaps too laden with messages for its own good, but it has many moments of musical beauty, and it's interesting to watch Janet McTeer.Read the full review
Greenwald is fine at creating the texture of early mountain life but loses her footing by embracing several plot points at once.Read the full review
Unfolds at a leisurely but enjoyable pace, its dramatic contrivances never pushed too hard.Read the full review
Songcatcher is a sweet, lyrical ode to rural America in the early 1900's.Read the full review
There are mountain tunes as powerful as moonshine to be enjoyed in Songcatcher -- but there's also a mighty mushy heap of corn pone to be swallowed.Read the full review
