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By Chris Hicks (618) for Total Film (3,532) on 16 Jan 2009

Aronofsky's most authentic film refuses to ridicule the amateur wrestling circuit, while Rourke's portrait of a has-been will surely be the…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 16 Jan 2009

I watch very few movies which couldn't have been improved upon, but this is one of them. I loved every mythic moment of it…

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By Mark Adams (368) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 16 Jan 2009

The Wrestler is well worth catching. Against all of the odds you end up caring deeply for this battered and lonely man…

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By Stuart Mcgurk (55) for thelondonpaper (91) on 16 Jan 2009

It's Rourke's display - crushed, hopeful, almost unbearably poignant - that'll stay with you after the ring lights fade…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 16 Jan 2009

A beautifully etched, touching essay about a damaged, desperate brute hoping for one taste of dignity and real fatherhood before his life goes…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 16 Jan 2009

The Wrestler is, in essence, an excellent B-movie centred upon a defiantly top-rate performance from Rourke…

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By Gina Carbone (187) for Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (187) on 15 Jan 2009

If The Wrestler doesn't get the Oscar attention it deserves I'm going after someone with a staple gun…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 15 Jan 2009

Like a rehabilitated race horse or disgraced sports star who makes the most of a second chance, Rourke gives The Wrestler the temperament of…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 15 Jan 2009

Like Randy's matches, the movie hits a lot of familiar beats; like Randy himself, it gets the maximum impact out of each one…

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By Vicky Roach (269) for Daily Telegraph (Australia) (376) on 15 Jan 2009

Rourke's Golden Globe award is as richly deserved as it was popular. Like the sport it celebrates, his performance doesn't hold anything back…

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By Victor Olliver (198) for Teletext (251) on 15 Jan 2009

With swelling lips to rival Pete Burns's, and long blond locks shorn from Marilyn (the '80s pop singer, not Monroe), Rourke sails above the…

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By Jolene Mendez (257) for Entertainment Spectrum (633) on 14 Jan 2009

See the rise of Mickey Rourke to reclaim his much deserved spot in Hollywood…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 14 Jan 2009

The chance to play that poignant confusion is the real prize that Rourke and Tomei earn in The Wrestler…

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By Colin Fraser (47) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 14 Jan 2009

Rourke's mesmerising performance is the heart and soul of an existential exploration of self-definition locked on a sports flick…

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By Jean-François Vandeuren (109) for Panorama (165) on 12 Jan 2009

La réussite de The Wrestler repose évidemment sur la performance phénoménale d'un Mickey Rourke que nous n'aurions jamais cru capable d'une…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 09 Jan 2009

With uncommon intelligence and brutal honesty, The Wrestler examines the cost, and need, of battle…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 09 Jan 2009

An enormously moving, beautifully acted film, The Wrestler honors its characters by showing how hard it is for them to reach out to each other…

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By Josh Rosenblatt (154) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Jan 2009

As far as I'm concerned, you can keep your Sean Penns and your Brad Pitts and your Frank Langellas; if there's any justice in the world, this…

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By Tom Maurstad (118) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 09 Jan 2009

The movie presses too hard and too often, but the performances are strong enough to withstand the melodramatic impulses, and the themes of…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 09 Jan 2009

The Wrestler has the intimacy of a fly-on-the-wall documentary. No stunt men were harmed -- or used -- in the fight sequences…

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