Against the Ropes: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

25

What [Ryan] appears to be doing is an impression of Johnny Depp doing an impression of Keith Richards doing an impression of Liz Taylor.
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A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Neither very credible nor one of those beyond-belief disposables you still find affable.
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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

So anemic you should probably order iron supplements with your popcorn, its plot so predictable it makes falling dominoes seem like a white-knuckle thrill ride.
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Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

A boilerplate melodrama whose good guys and bad guys are so baldly drawn they could have been conceived by Friz Freleng.
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Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

Written by Cheryl Edwards, Kallen's story is pumped with artificial sweeteners, hokey inevitabilities, and denaturing oversimplifications.
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Laura Sinagra Village Voice (Top Critic)

What could have been a Working Girl hoot gets mired in redundant assertions of Kallen's feistiness.
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Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

75

As a boxing movie, Against the Ropes is perfunctory... As a biopic, it's likewise uninspired stuff.
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Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

25

It's hard to buy this minor melding of Rocky and Erin Brockovich as anything but a punched-up star vehicle for an actress in a slump.
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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

50

Far from a championship movie, but it's fun while it lasts.
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Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

50

In the class of American boxing movies, it's barely a welterweight.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Meanders until it gets to the final third of its running time, and then it catches fire.
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

Pure fairy tale and flimflam, as phony as a fixed fight.
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Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

38

A riotously awful biopic rife with stereotypes and boxing movie cliches.
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Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

38

Almost nothing about it feels drawn from real life.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

It offers lackluster fantasy propped up by cliches. Kallen's story deserves better.
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Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

50

Probably won't convince many people that the girl next door is anything more than that.
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Megan Lehmann New York Post (Top Critic)

38

This lethargic, pseudo-feminist biopic is barely a notch above a bad TV movie, with one-dimensional characters, cliche-ridden dialogue and fight scenes that are badly choreographed and edited.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

Given a real character to play, and one within her range, Ryan delivers a real performance, and a really likable one, in this sassy-but-not-edgy boxing picture.
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Susan Walker Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

Bathos wrapped in a formulaic screenplay bolstered with cliches, not only about the boxing world but about tough women and the men who hate them.
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Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Wobbles like a punch-drunk fighter.
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Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

Somewhere along the way, I found myself enjoying Against the Ropes, not in spite of my better judgment, but because something in the movie defies the whole notion of better judgment altogether.
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

There are cracks in the foundation, but it is nevertheless a surprisingly watchable production.
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Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Meg Ryan's swell, but this 'Erin Rocky-vich' inspirational story lacks punch.
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