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Ali

Ali

2001

Michael Mann

Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith ...

6.4

26,561

Drama Muhammad Ali thrilled the world with his ground-breaking boxing victories in the '60s and '70s. But the man behind the legend is grappling with a tumultuous romantic life, his deeply held religious beliefs and the pressures of staying on top. A quick-witted, winning personality and strong friendships with close associates, including renowned newscaster Howard Cosell (Golden Globe nominee Jon Voight), help Ali "float like a butterfly and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Smith gives a towering performance, defiantly funny and impassioned (...) Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ’s left hook."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A long, flat, curiously muted film about the heavyweight champion. It lacks much of the flash, fire and humor of Muhammad Ali (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Richard Schickel Time	"[A] sober and often stirring film biography, a perfect representation of the instinctive, almost visionary, shrewdness that lay beneath Ali's doggerel-spewing, hyperkinetic image."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It] possesses an informed, intelligent perspective and is never uninteresting to watch. But the filmmaker’s brooding personality and style have imposed themselves"	NEU
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"The movie is bent from ambition, but it doesn't crumple under the weight. The director's acuity is leavened by his passion, which is beguiling"	POS
United States	Mark Caro Chicago Tribune	"We get few insights about what makes Ali tick (...) The problem isn't Smith, who does as good a job as imaginable impersonating the boxing champ"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is a measure of Michael Mann's imaginative virility as a director, and Will Smith's status as one of Hollywood's most charming and intelligent leading men, that this biopic fails as little as it does."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"This is riveting stuff and reconfirms Mann's status as a master of the medium (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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