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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 23 Dec 2009

Lurie's film never fully reconciles the story about newsroom ethics with the sentimental drama about bad dads and bereft sons…

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By Jason Mcbride (21) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 May 2009

The relationship between reporter and subject is always a tricky one, but in Resurrecting the Champ it's downright delusional…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 07 Feb 2009

Well, it smells, all right, but authentic isn't the word I'd use for this maudlin male weepie, a compendium of the worst clichés of sports…

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By Tony Macklin (521) for Fayetteville Free Weekly (88) on 02 Feb 2009

Resurrecting the Champ is a movie I was going to recommend. It was contrived and dopey, but it seemed like pleasant entertainment…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Dec 2008

The cast is generally excellent, but Hartnett in particular comes across as convincingly complicated, alternately reprehensible and sympathetic…

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By Heather Huntington (72) for ReelzChannel.com (132) on 25 Aug 2008

Nothing can wrench this movie from the grip of a saccharine, formulaic script full of plattitudes and divided allegiances…

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By Joanne Kaufman (79) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 20 Jun 2008

The movie itself -- which deals (not very interestingly) with the issue of journalistic integrity and (very predictably) with father-son relationships…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 21 Mar 2008

Jackson creates a searing study in reverse nobility as a character with a battered, street-poetic presence and subtle powers of sympathy that…

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By Jeff Bayer (445) for The Scorecard Review (437) on 03 Mar 2008

Even though the melodrama gets ratcheted up at the end, there were plenty of moments I found myself cheering for the Champ…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 29 Feb 2008

A contender that doesn't quite take a championship belt…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Nov 2007

The film is easy to take, though it must be said: It's almost 100 percent blather…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Sep 2007

By skewing the film into a father-son inspirational saga, the filmmakers sell out the best possibilities in their material…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 10 Sep 2007

Slow in the father-son heart to heart parts, Champ brings it all back home in the end with a great story line and saving performances by Jackson,…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 05 Sep 2007

The script and director Rod Lurie just can't get the parts to meld…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 04 Sep 2007

It's hard to have a genuine emotional response when the manipulative mechanics are all too strongly felt…

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 01 Sep 2007

Lurie's film actually works better as a study of a reporter coping with ambition and ethics as opposed to a story about Kernan and Champ or…

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By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 28 Aug 2007

Reporters also refer to what they write as my story…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 28 Aug 2007

This is a story that anyone should be able to relate to because we all fall short of perfection…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 28 Aug 2007

Without Jackson -- and a little help from Alan Alda and Peter Coyote -- this would be another in the long line of instantly forgettable Josh…

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By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 27 Aug 2007

The highs (Samuel L…

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