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• what doesn't disappear so quickly is the movie's musical layering

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• there's a loose, collage quality to the storytelling, with extended intimate exchanges interspersed among short scene fragments

  by David Rooney [Hollywood Reporter ]

• the narration tells us at the outset that their dreams of rock stardom will never be realized, so there isn't any suspense on that front

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• offers a poignant, alternative, antiheroic history of the big beat

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• offers a gritty, graceful salute to rock & roll

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• offer a few strokes of brilliance, moments that capture the way lightning could strike with just the merest twist of the radio dial

  Review rate : B- by Stephanie Zacharek [Film.com ]

• it's also deviously smart and darkly funny

  by Gary Goldstein [Los Angeles Times ]

• it has flashes of '60s spirit, but enough plot for a miniseries and the sensibility of a period dramedy

  by Mark Jenkins [NPR ]
• Reviewed by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]
• Reviewed by Richard Corliss [TIME Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Ronnie Scheib [Variety ]
• Reviewed by Scott Foundas [Village Voice ]

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