the real issue is that, though the movie is centred and even takes its name from a nonverbal teenager who's on the low-functioning side of the autism spectrum, it doesn't seem to care about exploring who she really is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 18, 2023

For those buying into the manipulation, the film is padded with fantasy sequences that double as music videos for pop star Sia, whose directorial debut feels more self-indulgent than sincere.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2023

Offensive and poorly judged, it intends to be inspirational but merely inspires confusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Jul 11, 2022

What is the distance between trailblazer and tragically out of touch? In the case of singer, songwriter and pop-cultural maverick Sia, the answer is the length of her debut as director.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 1, 2021

Music is a disastrous attempt at being a sprawling musical about a community of misfits. It comes off as not only incoherent, misguided and self-indulgent, but also devoid of empathy, patience or understanding of its subject matter.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2021

It's a debacle.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2021

Not only does Music fail to sing, it fails to even carry a tune. Don't quit your day job, Sia.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2021

Sia's clumsy drama hits all the wrong notes...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 22, 2021

Music is more than just a trainwreck of Sia's first frustrating attempt at a feature. It represents the depressing realization of just how misinformed the public still is about autism and how dangerous the misinformation in media is turning out to be.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2021

Other than the performances, there is nothing redeeming about this complete mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/10 | Mar 5, 2021

Despite talented cast, drama is a misguided look at autism.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Despite being intercut with extremely Sia-esque singing and dancing vignettes, the story is all too familiar and the script very ropey. Hudson does what she can with a cliché.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2021

There's so much that this movie gets wrong about the community that is searching to uplift.

Full Review | Feb 25, 2021

A completely misguided mess.

Full Review | Feb 25, 2021

Hudson goes to some emotionally raw and dark places, and really puts it out there in the song-and-dance department too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2021

Lacking any direction, Sia slips bits of each and every style in at random and fails to achieve any of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 22, 2021

Sia isn't the first musician to try her hand at filmmaking. Music is barely a movie, however.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2021

It's pitiful stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2021

The imagination and craftsmanship nearly compensate for the film's cliché characters and screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Feb 19, 2021

Four years ago, a musical genius shot a stinker. That she's promoting it so aggressively now suggests that she can't see, or smell, what's right under her nose.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2021