"You'll treasure this movie."
— Robert Horton, Film.com
"A great movie -- and the best movie ever about the '70s rock era."
— Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
"See it and it'll stay with you as your own memories do: funny, poignant, bittersweet and irreplaceable."
— Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"A rich, marvelous movie -- the kind that enchants on so many different levels, it leaves you feeling giddy."
— Miami Herald, Rene Rodriguez
"Crowe has created a genuine love song for all those who've ever felt their lives to have been saved by rock & roll."
— Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
"Sharply observed, bittersweet and suffused with the kind of detail that only someone who lived through the era could summon up, Crowe's script is funny, heartfelt and very cool."
— Stephen Miller, TV Guide Magazine
"It's not only the most gentle and effortlessly funny movie so far this year, it's a film with a style and sensibility that wonderfully harkens back to Hollywood's golden age of sophisticated comedy, and in particular to the masterpieces of Crowe's filmmaking idol, Billy Wilder."
— William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer