Fantastic Musical Movie With Great Performances and Incredible Directing

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2016)

The performances are fantastic. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo was great as the lead, and carried the film perfectly. I later looked him up on IMDb and saw that this was his first film appearance; he hadn't acted in anything before. And that makes his performance all the more incredible. Lucy Boynton was also great as Raphina. At first, she was very one-note, but as the film progresses she becomes a lot more developed and more interesting as a character, and I grew to like her a lot more. But from a performance standpoint she did a great job. But I think I liked Jack Reynor most as the older brother, Brendan. There's a considerable age difference between Conor and Brendan, and I loved that this film didn't fall into the clichéd trap of they hate each other and they're always fighting. In Sing Street, Brendan is someone Conor looks up to and respects, and Brendan sees Conor as someone who can make better choices than he did, and sees him as his responsibility to help succeed. It was a refreshing dynamic, and I appreciated the angle...