Positive Magic Reviews
- Bilboard.com: You Can Look ... But You Can't Touch (September 30, 2007)
- "Fully resettled on E Street after two solo projects, Springsteen has injected the taut "Magic" with a fierce purpose you can almost taste."
- Guardian Unlimited: Bruce Springsteen, Magic (September 28, 2007)
- "Springsteen goes back to his day job. And back, too, to the edge of town, where the Jersey Devil and the weary remnants of his old gang light up the night with a biker's funeral pyre in the parking lot of an abandoned diner."
- Rolling Stone: Bruce Springsteen - Magic (2007)
- "...a wall of angry, droning treble that, for the three minutes of "Radio Nowhere," is blessedly louder than the oceanic static of bent truths, partisan reporting and general bullshit that passes for life-and-death debate in the new wired order."
- Entertainment Weekly: Music Review - Magic (2007)
- '"Magic marks only the second instance in more than two decades that Springsteen has made a studio CD with the E Street Band - and unlike the last reunion, he's not resisting their signature sound."
- BBC: Rock Review - Bruce Springsteen, Magic (October 1, 2007)
- "...it really is a crowning achievement to his career thus far. It is, in a word, magic."
- IGN: Bruce Springsteen - Magic Review (October 8, 2007)
- "Thankfully Magic doesn't sound like Springsteen and company are just coasting along. There's a freshness and lyrical earnestness lurking underneath many of the album's songs that prove The Boss and his band are still very passionate about rock 'n roll."
- Blog Critics: Music Review: Bruce Springsteen - Magic (October 2, 2007)
- "Magic on the other hand finds Springsteen and the E Street Band rocking harder than they have on any album since Born In The USA, at least on the surface."
- OC Register: Entertainment: 'Magic' a bold return to vintage Springsteen (October 2, 2007)
- "It's a remarkable return to the iconic rocker's most identifiable style, an instantly gratifying set of deceptively optimistic songs unlike anything he and the E Street Band (who deserve shamefully absent album-cover billing) have recorded since the last of Springsteen's truly unimpeachable masterpieces, 1984's "Born in the U.S.A."
Negative Magic Reviews
- Village Voice: Reviews: Bruce Springsteen Coasts on Magic (October 3, 2007)
- "...a maddeningly uneven record that often sounds like legends coasting..."
- New York Magazine: Magic by Bruce Springsteen (October 8, 2007)
- "Though his voice is strong and sincere throughout the album, most of the material has a certain karaoke-like vibe."