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83
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Critic Score

65
Critics' score based on 36 reviews.
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Ali is a bruiser, unwieldy in length and ambition. But Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ's left hook.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

We see the movie levitate when Ali and Brown chant, "Float like a butterfly," the slogan that takes on a different meaning in each context, starting off as hopeful and spry, finally becoming rueful and pointed. When the film pulls off moments like these, it's breathtaking -- a near great movie.Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

Ali becomes less the story of a boxer than the story of one man hanging onto his soul. With so many wrong ways to dramatize that process, Mann's approach seems all the more right.Full Review

Keith Phipps
The Onion (A.V. Club)

Ali, in short, is far from a seamless success, but it does get the big things right and it respects a subject who commands respect.Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe

Connects so often and so persuasively that its shortcomings -- the movie goes slack from time to time -- really don't amount to much.Full Review

Bob Graham
San Francisco Chronicle
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