The Contender Critic Reviews

One of those rare movies where you leave the theater having been surprised and entertained, and then start arguing.Read the full review

Thoroughly engrossing.Read the full review

It does move right along and it's enlivened by stronger, more enjoyable acting than this kind of picture usually provides.Read the full review

A cast that chews the scenery with such obvious enjoyment that you're happy to put up with its tin-eared oratory and preposterous plot turns for the sake of a good ride.Read the full review

As entertainment of a tawdry but compelling sort, The Contender certainly delivers.Read the full review

Has a nonsensical twist ending that almost wrecks it, but until then it has enough fast, hyperliterate venality to make it great fun.Read the full review

Engages in the cinematic equivalent of not inhaling.Read the full review

Compelling and provocative -- though not memorable.Read the full review

The large, talented cast elevates the film above the trappings of its loquacious debates, particularly Allen.Read the full review