| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...one-sided Hollywood claptrap about honesty and valor, about how the truth, sigh, can set us free -- well, some of us." more... |
C |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Jackson disappears into his role, completely convincing, but then he usually is." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"The film is easy to take, though it must be said: It's almost 100 percent blather." more... |
B- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...the gooey sanctity of the bond between fathers and sons all but nullify Jackson's zesty performance." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge |
"Samuel L. Jackson knocks out a championship performance in this gritty, uplifting tale about an ex-boxer." more... |
A- |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...a compendium of the worst clichés of sports and journalism movies." more... |
D |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"As the story takes a predictable turn from disgrace toward redemption, the film sacrifices credibility for a weepy, pandering pseudosincerity." more... |
C+ |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"it's the complexity of (director) Lurie's moral universe that makes it linger in the mind." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...good as it is in spots -- the movie never quite comes together to be a coherent drama." more... |
B- |
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