Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar

In John Carney's Power Balld, wedding singer Rick (Paul Rudd) risks it all to claim credit after fading pop star Danny (Nick Jonas) turns his song into a hit.

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas star as musicians involved in a case of songwriting pilfering in John Carney’s warm, charming film

I still expect more from the writer/director of "Once."

Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar

"Power Ballad," in theaters Friday, suggests provocative issues related to creativity and industry but never follows through and ignores major ones.

In John Carney’s dramedy, a thwarted songwriter, played by Paul Rudd, crosses paths with a former boy-band star in search of new material.

John Carney's new movie, starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, springs from a horrifying premise: that an idea you’ve protected and nurtured for years can be stolen in an instant by…