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By Robert O (210) on 10 Aug 2007

Ugh...that bitch won't shut the hell up...ugh (vomit*)…

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By Tio B (201) on 07 Aug 2007

The quintessential statement on squandered potential…

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By Elin M (48) on 01 Aug 2007

A very good film! A boxing film I actually enjoyed…

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By James H (4,675) on 29 May 2007

As has been pointed out by many, this is like the flip side of the American dream, it's humanity at its most wretched, and terrifying to watch…

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By Tom Milne (86) for Time Out (7,510) on 26 Jan 2006

Marvellous, grimly downbeat study of desperate lives and the escape routes people construct for themselves, stunningly shot by Conrad Hall…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Oct 2004

Two men, barely 10 years apart in age, one with a lifetime of emptiness ahead of him, one with an empty lifetime already behind…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 18 Oct 2004

Huston really gets the flavor of Stockton, CA, and with its run-down drinking establishments, sleazy gyms, and bad coffee joints…

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By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

Huston's affection for life's eccentrics, as well as its rejects and misfits, is Legendary—so much so that it has sometimes seemed as if…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

John Huston's 1972 restatement of his theme of perpetual loss is intelligently understated…

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By Henry D. Fetter (1) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 27 Nov 1998

It is the script that made the difference here and that allowed Huston to make a better film than he had made in many years…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Jun 1988

A different director might have fashioned the same basic material into something grandiose, but Huston errs on the side of understatement…

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