4.0
out of 100
Metascore®Generally favorable reviews Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.
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High school musicals have their scrappiest number in Bandslam, an awkward, earnest, almost irresistible indie.
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Had Cameron Crowe and the late John Hughes collaborated on a movie populated by Disney Channel superstars, the result might have looked and sounded a lot like Todd Graff's Bandslam. And that's meant as a compliment.
This isn't a breakthrough movie, but for what it is, it's charming, and not any more innocuous than it has to be.
Misfit teens in the process of forming a high school band learn life lessons and raise their goblets of rock. But there's enough of a strong filmmaking backbeat in Bandslam to carry the movie's light tune.
Buoyant, gratifying and, yes, rocking.
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Dear David Bowie...
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