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Cinderella Man (2005)

Director: Ron Howard

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From Time Out New York

Damon Runyon may have insisted there was "no human interest story to compare" with the life of Depression-era boxer Jim Braddock, but to watch the unremarkably decent Ron Howard flick that's sprung from it is to wonder if the normally cynical Runyon wasn't hitting the sauce that day. The pugilist's comeback is textbook heroic, the man himself (Crowe) an unswerving paragon of virtue, and his chief villain, the brawler Max Baer (Craig Bierko), almost comically fearsome. As for the fights themselves, Howard brings nothing new to the canvas. Like the movie as a whole, they work fine enough, even while encased in leaden certitude.

Author: JR

Time Out New York website


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