Million Dollar Baby (2004) Critic Reviews
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More than "Unforgiven," more than "Mystic River," it is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece.Read the full review
As good as "Unforgiven." Or, to put it another way, as good as any movie Eastwood has ever directed.Read the full review
A masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true...The best film of the year.Read the full review
With its careful, unassuming naturalism, its visual thrift and its emotional directness, Million Dollar Baby feels at once contemporary and classical, a work of utter mastery that at the same time has nothing in particular to prove.Read the full review
Ages well in memory because it gradually seems to mean more. Its meaning can't be summed up in a sentence, but it has to do with a view of life as inexpressibly sad and yet always right.Read the full review
Perhaps the director's most touching, most elegiac work yet, Million Dollar Baby is a film that does both the expected and the unexpected, that has the nerve and the will to be as pitiless as it is sentimental.Read the full review
Staying at the top of his game when most of his contemporaries have long since hung up their gloves, Clint Eastwood delivers another knockout punch with Million Dollar Baby.Read the full review
Under Eastwood's painstakingly stripped-down direction -- his filmmaking has become the cinematic equivalent of Hemingway's spare though precise prose -- the story emerges as that rarest of birds, an uplifting tragedy.Read the full review
A movie of tough excitement and surprise, even grace.Read the full review
The heart of Million Dollar Baby lies in the core relationships among Frankie, Maggie and Scrap, friendships so pure, so genuine, so authentic that it takes actors of Eastwood's, Swank's and Freeman's caliber to sell them in this otherwise cynical world.Read the full review
