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Fat City

1972

John Huston

Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark ...

7.2

4,026

Drama The film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. One of them is on the decline of his career while the other one just begins to ascent in this sport.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Huston] treats it with a level, unsentimental honesty and makes it into one of his best films (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Marvellous, grimly downbeat study of desperate lives and the escape routes people construct for themselves, stunningly shot by Conrad Hall"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"One of the three or four most beautifully acted films seen so far this year (...) Gardner's screenplay, of course, is something quite special"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"This raw, pessimistic portrait of people struggling to keep from slipping all the way down reinvigorated the veteran director’s reputation, and stands as one of his best and most accomplished films."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"[It] is intelligently understated, though the recessive camera compositions put an unnecessary distance between the viewer and the characters"	NEU
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"It is the accuracy of this microcosm of the world that is so impressive, and Huston's sympathy with his motley characters"	POS

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