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Cinderella Man

Drama The true story of James J. Braddock, a man who took up boxing in the 1920s depression so as to feed his family, and becoming famous in the process -- he was known as "Cinderella Man" because of his fairy tale win over poverty.
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New York Post
New York Post
"So square it makes the original Rocky look cutting edge and Million Dollar Baby positively avant-garde by comparison" NEU
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Miami Herald
Miami Herald
"This is an utterly predictable, thoroughly manipulative and thunderously obvious movie. I wouldn't change a frame of it" POS
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Detroit News
Detroit News
"A grand piece of old-fashioned Hollywood filmmaking that is easily the best movie of the year so far" POS
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe
"f you're the sort of occasional moviegoer who feels they don't make 'em like they used to -- well, you're right. Except that Howard and Russell Crowe have just proved you wrong" POS
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer
"The conventional wisdom is that Howard is a sentimentalist (...) I prefer to think of the director as one in the handful of Hollywood filmmakers who still know how to make mass entertainment not based on a comic book" POS
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