Eastwood deserves accolades as both director and star of this powerfully made picture.
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12/16/04
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
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Reviews Counted:220
Fresh:201
Rotten:19
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: Critics are calling Clint Eastwood's latest a knockout, with fine performances and filmmaking that elevate clichéd material to new emotional heights.
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Released a little over a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature MYSTIC RIVER, Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for MILLION DOLLAR BABY. Eastwood also stars, in the... [More]
Starring: Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Jay Baruchel
Director: Clint Eastwood
Reviews for Million Dollar Baby
181 - 200 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
An unsettling and unforgettable masterpiece of skid-row poetry that punctures the heart.
12/16/04
A deeply knowing study of families abandoned and found, battles won and lost, dreams realized and deferred.
12/16/04
[Has] a lot going for it: excellent performances, the director's unique touch, and yet another angle of commentary on America's institutionalization of violence.
12/15/04
As good as Unforgiven. Or, to put it another way, as good as any movie Eastwood has ever directed.
12/15/04
A fine, understated piece of storytelling that earns every emotional body blow it lands.
12/15/04
A story well told about lessons well learned, and if Clint wants to keep making more like them, he should.
12/15/04
Eastwood delivers a ferociously emotional tale that matches, and in some respects surpasses, the artistry of last year's Mystic River.
12/15/04
Eastwood scores a knockout as an actor and director with Million Dollar Baby, a spare, exquisitely realized masterpiece about faith, redemption and boxing that beautifully illustrates his longtime philosophy that 'less is more.'
12/15/04
It worked in 1962 with Requiem for a Heavyweight, a shame it hasn't gotten any fresher in the intervening forty-two years.
12/15/04
A movie that approaches the level of great boxing films, like Raging Bull, by using sport as a metaphor for human nature.
12/15/04
While I wouldn't place Million Dollar Baby on quite as exalted a pedestal as last year's Mystic River and 1992's Unforgiven ... this unlikely female boxer movie may well be the best-directed of Eastwood's filmmaking career.
12/15/04
The film belongs to Swank.
12/15/04
Like a title bout that goes through seven rounds of friendly push and poke before exploding into a knockout combination.
12/15/04
The film works on every level -- acting, direction and production -- as it tells its heartfelt story about human frailty and the power of redemption.
12/15/04
Top CriticClint Eastwood delivers a knockout punch with this uncompromising boxing-ring drama about faith, trust and redemption.
12/15/04
It may be a classically staged tale of an underdog's triumph, but each scene is packed with authentic feeling.
12/15/04
Million Dollar Baby eventually climbs out of the ring and is none the worse -- actually better, probably -- for it.
12/15/04
Million Dollar Baby may be the first boxing movie to take the cliché of life imitating the 'art' and make it not feel like just another line.
12/15/04
If the film doesn't sucker punch you on first viewing, its humanity is sure to haunt for days afterward
12/15/04
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