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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Aug 2015

Seeking spontaneity and release for her character, Ms…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 05 Aug 2015

The story here, like a lot of bar bands, goes loud to cover up mediocrity. When Streep sings, though, so does the film…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 05 Aug 2015

A warmth radiates through Ricki and the Flash like a song sung true. A film that adores its characters this much is sure to be adored in kind…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 05 Aug 2015

The film turns out to be more conventional than you'd expect from Diablo Cody…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 05 Aug 2015

It helps that Kevin Kline excels as Ricki's ex, and Mamie Gummer, Streep's real-life daughter, imbues the fictional version with rare grit…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for Film Racket (579) on 05 Aug 2015

Does little except hit a series of sour notes…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Toronto Sun (419) on 05 Aug 2015

There's a lot to like about Ricki and the Flash, but seeing Meryl Streep perform the song Wooly Bully with a bar band is a particular highlight…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 05 Aug 2015

The music is a joy. Demme has always had one foot in the rock world, notably with three films featuring Neil Young…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Aug 2015

If you want to see and hear Streep get down with her Joan Jett self, go for it…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 05 Aug 2015

Because Demme genuinely likes people and is interested in them, Ricki and the Flash feels like “Stella Dallas” as remade by Jean Renoir…

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By Sam Woolf (118) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 05 Aug 2015

Ricki and the Flash is an energetic, likeable, and safe greatest hits collection for many of its talented voices…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Aug 2015

The music so wholly engulfs the second half of the film, there’s no room left to expand on characters that feel less than lived-in or on…

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By Jane Sumner (71) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 05 Aug 2015

Jonathan Demme still owns the groove that 31 years ago made the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense one of the great, nearly perfect concert films…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Aug 2015

Though this is the cinematic equivalent of an album of cover tunes by artists who have created much more dazzling original work, it’s a sweet,…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 05 Aug 2015

Creating a film with solid drama beside good humor is tough…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Aug 2015

This is a talented cast working for a talented director in a film that never reaches the heights it should have…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 05 Aug 2015

Quite a few filmgoers lament the shortage of movies for adults. Ricki and the Flash goes against that trend with rock ’n’ roll attitude…

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By Justin Craig (142) for FoxNews.com (142) on 05 Aug 2015

If only one thing should be taken away from this film, it's that the Streep acting genes will surely live on for a long time to come through…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 05 Aug 2015

A dramedy about a rock musician seeking to reconcile with the family she left behind to follow her bliss…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 05 Aug 2015

As an actor, Meryl Streep is incapable of making false moves. That doesn't mean she's incapable of making false movies…

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