Hearts Beat Loud

A keenly observed story of a Brooklyn father and daughter, charged with the kind of music as free-spirited as the duo is.

Music is so central to Hearts Beat Loud that it's connected to everything...Hearts Beat Loud is anything but sad.

The story is barrel-proof earnest sentiment, straight no chaser. How to keep the eyes from rolling in response? Well, it helps to have Nick Offerman at the center of things.

Writer-director Brett Haley...coaxes a few weak laughs from the daddy-daughter role reversal, and stale, mushy drama from the cycling death of the girl's mother more than a decade earlier.

This is a movie you not only want to see, but also to put on the turntable.

Haley engagingly traces the arc of the father-daughter relationship while deftly avoiding sentimentality. And he elicits fine performances from a splendid cast.

The filmmaking is as warm as the beats Sam programs, but for all the comforts in the storytelling, as well as new relationships for Frank and Sam, the movie reveals creativity as a way of saying goodbye.

All in all, a diverting, endearing and unpretentious slice of life, carved out with real feeling and shrewd good taste.

I guess you could say it's the same old song, but with a different meaning since it cast 'Ron'.

Hearts Beat Loud defines family film better than most movies claiming the title.

...just might worm its way into your heart.

Clemons and Offerman are unforgettable, each conquering the full spectrum of emotion to find common ground and the love to accept the other's choices.