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- 04:00 PM, Mar 29
undeniably engaging musical portrait that delivers major bangs for the buckby Michael Rechtshaffen [Hollywood Reporter ]
possesses surprising moments of candor on the toil of teenage superstardomby Andrew Barker [Variety ]
no circular device is being reinvented hereby Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
may be the concert film as glorified promotional product, but it captures a genuine youthquakeReview rate : B+ by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]
make a C with your left hand, make a backward C with your right; put them together and point thumbs southby Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
is not good-not that it needs to beby Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]
is about as revealing as a Canadian snowmobile suitby Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]
is a sweetly entertainingby Jon Bream [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
is a bit of a messby Mark Olsen [LA Times ]
extremely watchableby Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
even the most skeptical viewer would have to agree: He comes off as a decent, funny and respectful kidby Timothy Finn [Kansas City Star ]
doesn't work as a biopic isn't a surpriseby Scott Bowles [USA Today ]
but the pure, unadulterated joy is completely contagiousReview rate : C+ by Molly Eichel [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
any adult could guess that this upbeat, carefully-packaged promotional toolby Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
an approved biography and marketing toolby Mike Hale [NY Times ]