Saying this movie is about boxing is akin to saying Citizen Kane is about a sled.
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01/06/05
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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The picture uses the familiar boxing milieu -- the dingy gym, the late-night training sessions, the build-up to the Big Bout -- as background for a far more intimate and surprising love story between a surrogate father and a surrogate daughter.
01/06/05
It's a story about passion and dedication to a dream. It's a story about the need to believe in yourself and what you're doing. It's a story about lost opportunities and second chances.
01/06/05
It's slow like sweet molasses, careful and textured.
01/06/05
...a tribute to the director-star's admirable work ethic more than anything else.
01/06/05
It doesn't get any better than this knock-out of a film.
01/05/05
Not just another in a string of masterworks, but also one of the greatest boxing films of all time.
01/05/05
It takes place in a brutal sporting world, but pay no mind; Baby is intimate, tender, and an immaculately built drama.
01/04/05
An uncompromising and darkly intimate portrayal of risk, resolution and dark, dark places.
01/04/05
...doesn’t focus on the superficial elements of machismo, but rather on the nature of what being a man really means
01/04/05
Absolutely one of the best films that Clint Eastwood's ever made. Think about that.
01/02/05
I almost wish I could point out something wrong with Million Dollar Baby just to be a little different from every other critic on the planet.
01/01/05
For Clint Eastwood, grim is good, very good.
12/31/04
Million Dollar Baby has a simple premise made better by studying the relationships between the characters, but it takes too wild of a turn towards the end for my taste.
12/31/04
Million Dollar Baby packs an emotional punch that knocks the wind out of its audience like no movie has in years.
12/30/04
A perfect film.
12/27/04
We can see why Warner Bros. decided to move it up a couple of months for the awards season.
12/27/04
The performances of the three leads are perfect, so we don't care that we don't know what lies right outside the Hit Pit.
12/27/04
The most profoundly moving platonic love story of the year. It may be time to wheel out another batch of Career Achievement Awards for Mr. Eastwood.
12/27/04
It has the gloom and transcendence of an old man's wisdom.
12/27/04
Latest News for Million Dollar Baby
August 21, 2009:
Billy Bob Thornton Weighs Pound for Pound 
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March 20, 2008:
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May 24, 2007:
Screenwriter Paul Haggis Enticed Back to "Bond 22"
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February 26, 2007:
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