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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnLike Stephen Walker's delicate nonfiction portrait "Young@Heart," it's a genuine heart-tugger about senior citizens rediscovering their youth by singing pop music; like Craig Brewer's crowdpleasing "Hustle & Flow," it sympathizes with a struggling rap artist without glossing over his flaws.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceEnthoven and his screenwriters walk a fine line between celebrating the vitality of the elderly and asking us to laugh at their youthful affectations, twice embarrassing his three septuagenarians by forcing them to sing along to Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam."
- 60Arizona RepublicKerry LengelArizona RepublicKerry LengelDespite the silly-sounding premise, it's a wistful, bittersweet meditation on aging and death.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoIt's also sugary and has a silly tear-jerker ending. But I found myself laughing at the film's gentle humor, anyway.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis drippy dramedy embraces every inappropriate-oldster cliché with depressing calculation.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanCalculated Belgian crowd-pleaser.