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A documentary outlining the story of a town once troubled by social tensions that makes a powerful comeback and reunites community through music.
Leave your thoughts about Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll.
| Movie NationRoger MooreIts real value is as an oral and visual history of Springsteen, where he met his bandmates and the musical milieu he was fortunate enough to grow up in. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWhile Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock 'n' Roll too often feels like a promotional video created by a local tourism organization, it nonetheless provides an engaging history of the town and its once-vibrant music scene. |
| VarietyChris WillmanWhile the film may feel at times like it was made under the auspices of an Asbury Park tourism board, it’s at least a theoretical tourism board that has a good awareness that a dystopia doesn’t shift back to utopia overnight, or even over a neat 50 years. |
| The GuardianMike McCahillA starstruck Jones hardly pushes his interviewees on it, but somewhere in his naggingly monotonous morass of talking heads is the tale of how the Boss gained a social conscience. |
