 In reviewing "Music of the Heart," the reviewer believes that the director's greatest flaw is:
He's both inside and outside the action: He knows when to rock your world and when to induce a state of sorrowful detachment. It's the beginning of what Bill McKibben called "the end of nature"--that is, when nature became no longer an autonomous, self-regulating force but one touched (and, in Miyazaki's view, poisoned) by human industry. Gillian Anderson's growling Moro sounds silly (she doesn't have the breath control), and the fey-hick tones of Billy Bob Thornton are too recognizable as the Akim Tamiroff-like mercenary, Jigo.
 Mischaracterizing Roberta Guaspari
 Not focusing enough on the violin music  Trying too hard to appeal to the film industry's elite  Ignoring the perspectives of the children in the film  Mischaracterizing Roberta Guaspari