It is never easy to build word of mouth for a crowd-pleasing movie, and the recent travels of “August Rush” producer Richard Barton Lewis prove the point. Scheduled to attend an “August Rush” ...

“August Rush” is one emotionally manipulative picture, a movie about a child music prodigy abandoned by his parents who holds out hope against hope that he will reunite with them — and heads out on a ...

There are precious movies and then there are movies about 11-year-old orphans following ‘‘the music.’’ In this respect, ‘‘August Rush’’ is on another level. We need to break out a whole new definition ...

Hitting all the bases as a clichéd child-prodigy film and as a clichéd orphan-in-search-of-parents film, August Rush is pandering to the point of offensive. This bogus fairytale centers on the title ...