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Village Voice
Burstein and Morgen take all this in from an unobtrusive middle distance, letting the subjects themselves slowly complicate the profusion of athletic and ghetto-real clichés that fly scattershot in the early going. Full Review
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
Walking out of the theater, I felt so bereft that I couldn't speak. And it doesn't hurt any less thinking about the movie now, as I write this. Full Review
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
In recording life as it unfolds in the course of a year, On the Ropes not only defies prediction as to its outcome but is in some ways downright confounding...as involving and suspenseful as the best fictional films. Full Review
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle
Exceptional, powerful new documentary. Full Review
Renee Graham
Boston Globe
Has the impact of a left-right combination to the chin. Full Review
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