New in Theaters: ‘Begin Again’ Sings

Keira Knightley (left), Mark Ruffalo (right), and a passel of ready-for-anything musicians in ‘Begin Again’ (Weinstein Company)

When John Carney made the incomparable Dublin street-musicalOnce, he ginned upmagic fromthe mundane. With the glitzier and slightly more stockBegin Again, he uses the same starry-eyed formula for almost equallywonderful results.

Begin Again is playing now around the country. My review is at Film Racket:

Nothing inBegin Again, a grin-machine Roman candle of a film, shoul...