‘August Rush’ weaves a story of music and nothingness
If you ever have the unfortunate luck to find yourself in the same theater as “August Rush,” here’s my advice: Shut your eyes. This is a movie to be heard, not seen. A catastrophically wrongheaded film about an orphaned musical prodigy, “August Rush” is two hours of beautiful music stapled onto one of the dopiest movies I’ve ever seen. The soundtrack is transcendent. Everything else is dreck. More »
