Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- [New – 1/7/16] | Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day,” “The Equalizer”) has never been accused of subtlety, so the depth of performances he achieves here are noteworthy even if the story beats come down like a sledgehammer.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Southpaw features the components of a fine, character-driven movie, but they’re sandwiched between an unpalatable first act and a routine final one.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Seriously slick, sweaty, strenuous boxing flick, filled with extreme spiritual and physical suffering on the road to revenge and redemption….
- Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: Instead of a performance Gyllenhaal gives a mumbling, self-conscious impression of Eminem. And because of this, we never fully commit to this gritty update of ‘The Champ.’
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Antoine Fuqua tells an overly familiar story in an entertaining and engaging way.
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: …there must be some frayed logic behind the decision to greenlight and produce Southpaw, which on the evidence of the film itself, is part standard clichéd underdog story and part overwrought disaster.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: It’s amazing to see how far Gyllenhaal has come as an actor who transforms himself physically, emotionally, and mentally for each role he plays.
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Jake Gyllenhaal does his best Mike Tyson in Southpaw, a boxing movie about a tough kid from a Hell’s Kitchen orphanage who goes on to become a Lightweight champion, loses everything, and then picks himself back up by his teeth in an effort to come out back on top.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] Jake Gyllenhaal is one of most daring and accomplished actors in the business, and he makes this movie happen.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Essentially just a down-and-dirty variation on that classical pugilistic tearjerker ‘The Champ’…despite its hardboiled exterior, the movie still wallows in sentiment and cliche.
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: An almost fatally derivative fight flick is saved by a key performance and some good old on-screen fight hokum.
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Southpaw foregrounds straightforward, moralistic storytelling that is reminiscent of early 20th-century boxing flicks like The Champ and Gentleman Jim.
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