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Jersey Boys: Some Reviews

Alonso Duralde, in THE WRAP, gives this movie a mixed review.  The "core audience" will get a "nice, pleasant, entertaining time at the movies," but it all feels uninspired to him, an overblown episode of "Behind the Music." Mixed reviews seem to be the fate of Jersey Boys. Roger Ebert, of the notorious thumb, says the mob-related material in the movie seems both endless and lifeless. The movie becomes worthwhile, though, when it focuses on the chemistry among the band members. Andrew Barker, writing in VARIETY, says the movie is "effective at conveying the joy of sudden harmonic epiphany" in some scenes, but in others the leads don't seem to be "surfing the same wave." Chris Nashawaty for CNN Entertainment, gave it one of the least positive reviews I've seen.  It was in his view a "one-dimensional stage show" to begin with and gains nothing from adaptation. But he acknowledges that the project is saved from...