Girlfight Critic Reviews
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While Rodriguez punches through the indie clutter to announce herself as a superb new movie talent, so Kusama scores big points in her first main event.Read the full review
A terrific little uppercut of a boxing movie and close to a perfect one.Read the full review
It's always about more than boxing.Read the full review
The movie belongs to Ms. Rodriguez. With her slightly crooked nose and her glum, sensual mouth, she looks a little like Marlon Brando in his smoldering prime, and she has some of his slow, intense physicality. She doesn't so much transcend gender as redefine it.Read the full review
Blends in a most satisfying manner the conventions of several genres, resulting in a coherent picture that is at once a poignant inner-city drama, a rousing sports movie, an emotional family yarn and, above all, a sweet romance.Read the full review
A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings.Read the full review
A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions.Read the full review
Luminously understated.Read the full review
Belongs to that most promiscuous of genres -- the go-for-it sports melodrama -- but transcends it and then some.Read the full review
The movie belongs to Rodriguez: A gorgeous woman with a powerful body and the face of an Aztec princess, she's also a natural talent who instinctively understands the importance of economy in good acting.Read the full review
