"More importantly, I hope that MUSIC WITHIN gets Livingston and Sheen as much attention as they deserve. They both deliver two memorable performances here that deserve attention even if the rest of the film drifts from your memory, which I'm hoping it won't."
" Immensely likable and only occasionally too earnest, "Music Within" is a surprisingly entertaining story about a man who wanted to fight for something but took years to have something to say".
"The biggest problem is that debuting director Steven Sawalich, working from a screenplay attributed to three writers, makes the story play more like a fictional quirkfest."
"Music Within, which tries to use a lighthearted tone and ironic narration to belie its deeper implications, never gives Livingston strong enough material to make more affecting use of his presence as Richard Pimentel".
"Sawalich's TV movie-grade direction isn't up to the task of enlivening material that eventually settles into a predictable, torpid narrative structure".
