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Reviews Counted:200
Fresh:160
Rotten:40
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: With grittiness and an evocative sense of time and place, Cinderella Man is a powerful underdog story. And Ron Howard and Russell Crowe prove to be a solid combination.
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $61,548,295
Synopsis: Academy Award®-winning producer Brian Grazer, director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (all Oscar® winners for 2001's A Beautiful Mind) are reunited with Oscar® winner Russell Crowe for... [More]
Starring: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko
Director: Ron Howard
The conventional wisdom is that Howard is a sentimentalist who needs Crowe to give his films edge. I prefer to think of the director as one in the handful of Hollywood filmmakers who still know how to make mass entertainment not based on a comic book.
Having Russell Crowe in a movie makes a huge difference.
Sharp acting within a sepia-toned technical knockout.
Honestly, how can you not root for a movie about a Depression-era underdog prizefighter who beats the odds and wins it big? It seems anti-American or something.
No opportunity for sentimental editorializing goes unseized.
Crowe delivers powerful punch. "Cinderella Man" first Oscar-contender of the year.
Entertaining and affecting, but an Oscar movie this is not.
So determined to make the audience stand up and cheer that it forgets how to generate anything lasting, other than sheer old-timey nostalgia.
The film just delivers on every level, not only as one of the great sports movies in recent memory but as a truly inspiring and thrilling comeback story.
A rousing picture and a genuinely inspiring one… one Cinderella story that goes the distance without turning into a pumpkin, and fully earns its happily ever after.
Cinderella Man consistently delivers less than it wants to by trying for more than it should. The movie tells the story of Braddock's life as redemptive fairy tale, fitting the fighter for a glass slipper that ends up being the movie's glass jaw.
A worn-out Goodwill version of Rocky that either deserved a less-banal filmmaking approach or didn't need to be made at all.
Howard has tapped into a glorious true-life story and wisely chosen Crowe, an unparalleled actor, to embody the hero.
Not only is Cinderella Man Howard's best movie, it is also his most personal and deeply felt.
There probably isn't a filmmaker anywhere, other than the redoubtable Steven Spielberg himself, who's as adroit as Howard at grabbing the mass viscera and squeezing it at just the right intervals.
It's hard to guess how much of the beautiful science Academy members can take, but let's worry about that next February.
What a relief when an inspirational movie actually works.
One of the best films of the year, it speaks to the heart and models a working-class hero whose riches have nothing to do with money.
An endearing story that will keep you at the edge of your seat, the edge of a cheer, the edge of a tear.
As touching, thrilling, and inspiring as they come – and a welcome return to the kinds of films that make you leave the theatre feeling better than when you entered.
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