The Hammer Critic Reviews

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Based upon 6 Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle | Walter AddiegoAdd Critic to Favorites

Nothing groundbreaking, but there's an easy charm in the movie.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Gene SeymourAdd Critic to Favorites

What you have here, essentially, is a classic "Honeymooners" episode juiced with tropes from the most recent "Rocky" movie.Read the full review

Variety | Ronnie ScheibAdd Critic to Favorites

This inordinately likable and consistently funny boxing saga-cum-romantic comedy doesn't so much ridicule the "Rocky"-type inspirational sports fable as gently deflate its heroic overdrive.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Stephen FarberAdd Critic to Favorites

The film hardly could be credited with breaking any new ground, but it has a hangdog charm, much like its leading actor.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

So many movies these days are overworked or overblown: The Hammer feels genuinely tossed-off. It isn't a great movie, or even a consistently good one. Yet it gets to elusive feelings about failure and success, hope and mortality (and reveals a quietly subversive attitude toward the boxing-movie genre).Read the full review

The New York Times | Matt Zoller SeitzAdd Critic to Favorites

Rambling and disorganized. At the same time, though, The Hammer also has dry wit and unforced working-class swagger, and hits some surprising emotional notes.Read the full review

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