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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Some grace notes and riffs ring true, but mainly it plays like a familiar tune on a broken record.
- 40VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibUnfortunately, the unconvincing fictional storyline Rosenbaum weaves around this solid musical base hits every meller cliche in the "self-destructive rock star" playbook.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAn exhausted pileup of rock-movie clichés, The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll presents artistic self-destruction with the solemnity of a movie that has invented a spanking-new genre.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThose who go looking for tragic relevance in Scott Rosenbaum's debut indie won't find much to grasp onto.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterA limp piece of fan fiction about a fictional rock band's heyday and decline.
- 30Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerThe phoniness of their cross-country saga is compounded by a gaggle of cipher sidekicks.
- 25Slant MagazineGlenn Heath Jr.Slant MagazineGlenn Heath Jr.There's nothing inherently flawed about this nomadic and potentially life-affirming narrative, but Rosenbaum manages to instill every moment on the road with a sense of shrill conventionality.
- 25New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickYou'd be better off renting "Eddie and the Cruisers" (1983) than slogging through this latest, far more dire recycling of the same rock clichés.