Music

"I am autistic and a fan of Sia's songs. As I watched her feature directorial debut "Music," I felt overwhelmed with emotions . . . none of them good."

"Jaw-dropping train wreck..."

"Baffling... ill-conceived..."

"This is a bizarre movie, one that parades confused ideas about care, fantasy and disability with a pride that reads as vanity."

"A sentimental atrocity so cringe-inducing it should come with an advisory warning for anyone with pre-existing shoulder or back injuries."

"Kate Hudson's excellent performance as a recovering alcoholic goes a good way toward grounding a bifurcated movie musical that doesn't have its treatment of autism as its only problem."

"If not for its game ensemble cast and a few memorable moments (including a cameo by Juliette Lewis), it should be counted as a disaster."

"[Ziegler's] distracting performance feels ill-judged at best, and lacks the support of a credible, nuanced drama to help it resonate."

"A well-intentioned but messily fantastical neurodiversity drama."

"May lack the sickening nightmare quality of Tom Hooper’s screen version of Cats – apparently set in some version of hell – it’s scarcely less of a baffling fiasco, and may inspire a similar cult of ironic enthusiasts who return repeatedly to gawk at the wreckage."

"The equivalent to a pop-up bar furnished with hastily assembled knick-knacks from the 1990s, in desperate hope we might assume the randomness was somehow by design. Utterly consistent, however, is the commitment to cloying whimsy."