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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazinePare lacks charisma as Eddie, but the Bruce Springsteen-like music (by John Cafferty, who dubs Eddie's singing voice, and his Beaver Brown Band) was good enough to put the soundtrack album in the Top 40 charts.
- 70Time OutTime OutLow key and, despite the music, rather likeable.
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinVivid, full of conviction and more than a little foolish at times.
- 60The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayEddie And The Cruisers is a hodgepodge of seemingly unmarketable ingredients: a complicated flashback structure, oblique nods to Elvis Presley conspiracy theories and The Beach Boys’ unreleased opus Smile, and anachronistic Bruce Springsteen-style frat-rock.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEddie and the Cruisers is all buildup and no payoff.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliWhatever goodwill the movie builds up during its first 85 minutes is thrown away in the idiotic, anticlimactic final ten.
- 50Miami HeraldMiami HeraldA few times, when Eddie and the Cruisers are making their music, the movie begins to hook you. But less-than-skillful plotting always lets you off the hook, and the ending is a letdown and a tease. [26 Sept 1983, p.6]
- 50Washington PostGary ArnoldWashington PostGary ArnoldIt seemed to me that what Eddie and the Cruisers aspired to do was certainly worth doing. The problem is that it finally lacks the storytelling resources to tell enough of an intriguing story about a musical mystery man. [30 Sept 1983, p.E2]
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottIn the race to make that great rock and roll movie in the sky, Eddie and the Cruisers is a pit stop. [24 Sept 1983]