Million Dollar Baby (2004) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 16 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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More than "Unforgiven," more than "Mystic River," it is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece.Read the full review
A masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true...The best film of the year.Read the full review
A movie of tough excitement and surprise, even grace.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
It is a rich and challenging motion picture that both affirms life and emphasizes its fragility. Eastwood touches our hearts and energizes our minds without resorting to overt manipulation.Read the full review
The knockout punch comes from Eastwood. His stripped-down performance -- as powerful as anything he's ever done -- has a rugged, haunting beauty. The same goes for the movie.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
It's impressive, in the sense that a sucker-punch impresses itself on your skull.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
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
