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Jersey Boys

2014

Clint Eastwood

John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda ...

6.0

6,180

Drama Jersey Boys is a musical biography of the Four Seasons-the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert (though it does include numbers from the popular Four Seasons songbook), Jersey Boys gets to the heart of the relationships at the center of the group-with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"The relative dearth of prominent musical performances turns what could have been a dancing-in-the-aisles romp into a bit of a slog."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A dash of showbiz pizzazz has been lost but some welcome emotional depth has been gained in the big-screen version of the still-thriving theatrical smash 'Jersey Boys'."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"It's entertaining musical biopic territory but rarely steps out of anything but caricature. (...) Rasting: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"Likable film (...) Eastwood may never show us his boys discovering themselves under that street lamp, but he gives us a clutch of moments worth treasuring — and mostly without overdoing it."	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"It works in the hits, and it casts singers who make those hits sound virtually identical to the originals. What the movie doesn't do is answer the question, 'Why did I just spend 134 minutes watching the Frankie Valli episode of 'Behind the Music'?'"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Eastwood's subdued period drama is undermined by a painfully familiar rise-then-fall biopic structure, which nullifies the story's potentially more interesting elements."	NEG
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	“'Jersey Boys’' tells a familiar story, yes — but rarely told this well and with this much heart and soul (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The catchy hits by The Four Seasons are indelible, but Jersey Boys, the drab movie based on the Broadway musical about those tunes, is sadly forgettable (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Eastwood, as always, has simply done things his own way, and the result is a leisurely old-school entertainment with a bit more edge than you may be expecting"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Jersey Boys' (...) feels oddly diluted (...) It's the Mob connection that allows Eastwood to add shading and a sharper edge (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU

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