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.

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…