Together

It is best read as a paean to the power of music -- while it is playing, the film is at its most persuasive.

Never wavers from its serviceably warm and fuzzy path.

The performances are all terrific, but Together never jells as a compelling narrative.

...a small-scale movie set in modern Beijing that comes right up to the brink of mawkishness and is saved only by some residual inscrutability in the narrative.