Young @ Heart Critic Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

They also make joyful music, communicated, both by the singers and their playful, sensitive documentarian, with an authority that quite knocks off socks.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

Sloppily made at times and it comes close to wearing out its welcome, but you can't blame Walker for not wanting to let his subjects go. And as the movie progresses, a viewer begins to understand why: These people are literally singing for their lives.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

A heartening and poignant affirmation of the transformative power of music.Read the full review

Variety | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

An irresistibly joyous, tearful and, most importantly, musical doc about a band of senior pop singers whose repertoire includes "Golden Years," "Should I Stay or Should I Go" and "Stayin' Alive."Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie offers an encouraging vision of old age in which the depression commonly associated with decrepitude is held at bay by music making, camaraderie and a sense of humor.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Walter AddiegoAdd Critic to Favorites

A liberating experience.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Likely to bring a smile to your lips and a bounce to your step.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

This may sound like a suspect enterprise, a musical gimmick impossible to embrace, but the reality is otherwise. For what the members of this uncanny chorus lack in pure ability they make up for in irrepressible spirits and a desire to simply have fun.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

Here are old people in all the magnificence of their elderliness. The movie doesn't pretend like getting old is any fun. But it's about the transcendental power of -- well, yes, music; and each of these folks has a talent whose expression is a fuel to survive.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

There's a wealth of great material here, especially a shattering performance of Coldplay's "Fix You" by a soulful mountain of a man named Fred Knittle.Read the full review

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