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Big George Foreman

2023

George Tillman Jr.

Khris Davis, Forest Whitaker, Sullivan Jones, Deion Smith ...

6.0

441

Drama The life and boxing career of George Foreman.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] isn't bad exactly, merely serviceable. You keep waiting for it to deliver a knockout blow that never comes"	NEU
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"An all-too conventional look at an unconventional man, 'Big George Foreman' is, alas, a swing and a miss (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Flattering biopic zooms entertainingly through an extraordinary, switchback career (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Radheyan Simonpillai The Globe and Mail	"A strong filmmaking team could have made a meal of this story. Unfortunately, Tillman Jr. settles for a lousy boxing movie in service of a sermon"	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"It’s solidly and safely directed by George Tillman Jr, but will likely appeal more to the Christian cinema crowd than to the sports movie audience (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Christian Zilko IndieWire	"It’s almost impressive that 'Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World' is so dull"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It’s Conventional but Delivers (...) it stays true to the facts and the spirit of the man (he’s both sinner and saint), and the saga they add up to is singular in the history of sports."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Deadline	"A reasonably engaging “inspired by real events” melodrama featuring a fair amount of boxing action (...) it could have been much deeper and more revealing about achieving your dreams young and how you deal with it."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"'Raging Bull' it is not (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"Without bothering to show us, the film tells us what we're supposed to take away from his story. These are sympathetic and moving sentiments to be sure, but being spoon-fed these messages isn't all that interesting"	NEU
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"An unimaginative and uninspired retelling of sanctioned history, betraying a deep and complex story that's begging to be told (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Timothy Cogshell AV Club	"An excellent movie about a beloved figure who indeed seems ageless and whose story includes the kind of comebacks usually reserved for fiction"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"A disappointingly formulaic biopic"	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"A movie with its heart in the right place and its sense of drama nowhere in sight"	NEU
United States	Ross McIndoe Slant	"The film stumbles sluggishly from one chapter in Foreman’s life to the next (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Chase Hutchinson Collider	"[It] only proves to be headache-inducing"	NEG

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