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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Jun 2014

You're in that world, sucked in by the music and the performances…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 17 Jun 2014

Jersey Boys is a good movie, and the performances are first-rate. But Eastwood should have roughed things up a little more…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 17 Jun 2014

Imagine Goodfellas without much in the way of stakes, and you’ll get Clint Eastwood’s pleasingly square and forgettable adaptation of the…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Jun 2014

The unfortunate trade-off of Eastwood’s efficient, real-deal classical direction is his stubborn commitment to the script…

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By Louis Black (103) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Jun 2014

The film is fun…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Film.com (1,892) on 17 Jun 2014

Eastwood, who once upon a time was a flavorful director, is working in movie-of-the-week mode here. Cheesy, direct, bland…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for The List (2,018) on 16 Jun 2014

Entirely watchable, albeit disappointingly workmanlike at the same time…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 16 Jun 2014

Subdued, nostalgic behind-the-music story of this iconic jukebox quartet and Frankie Valli's parade of hits: 'Sherry,''Walk Like a Man,' 'Can't…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jun 2014

Eastwood may never show us his boys discovering themselves under that street lamp, but he gives us a clutch of moments worth treasuring —…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Hitfix (861) on 16 Jun 2014

Eastwood is rarely a careless director, even when his handling on the material is this badly fumbled, but even his typically astute command…

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By Daniel Green (105) for CineVue (2,163) on 16 Jun 2014

A lacklustre, frustratingly inconsistent work of music history sugar-coating…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 16 Jun 2014

Late to the game, blandly cast and scripted with every Italian American cliche in the “How to Make Spaghetti” cookbook, it is Eastwood’s…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 15 Jun 2014

A nostalgic trip down Memory Lane designed with Baby Boomers in mind…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 15 Jun 2014

Half GoodFellas, half Dreamgirls, Jersey Boys is an appealing take on a grit-to-glamour biopic. What it ultimately fails to do, though, is convince…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 15 Jun 2014

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…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 15 Jun 2014

It works in the hits, and it casts singers who make those hits sound virtually identical to the original versions…

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By Andrew Barker (315) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Jun 2014

As handsome as his compositions are, Eastwood’s filmmaking simply doesn’t have the snap or the feel for rhythm that the script’s rapid-fire…

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