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8 Mile (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "This is one dumb picture. With one smart star." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "As an actor, Eminem is convincing without being electric." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "...an exciting, well-crafted movie..." more... B   Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "...darned good..." more... B+ E! Online "8 Mile goes the distance..." more... B   filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "Em kept his cool, and his new movie was straight dope." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "...a terrific movie." more... A   Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "...a fascinating, surprisingly entertaining stand-off..." more... B+ New York Post Jonathan Foreman "...hews closer to the plot conventions of sports movies like Rocky than those of traditional musical biopics." more... B   New York Times Elvis Mitchell "...maybe the project doesn't make sense in the abstract, but once you submit to it, it works." more... B   ReelViews James Berardinelli "...an effective effort, and fans of hip-hop in general (and Eminem in particular) will be pleased." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...qualifies as a cinematic event by tapping into the roots of Eminem and the fury and feeling that inform his rap." more... A- San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Curiel "...more funny than foul, more inspiring than infuriating, more touching than not." more... B+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...there's no denying the achievement of the movie." more... B+ USA Today Mike Clark "Eminem steals the picture from a cast with snap down to the smallest parts." more... A- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)