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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 16 Jan 2009

The Wrestler transcends professional wrestling as Requiem for a Heavyweight transcends boxing…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 16 Jan 2009

Rourke is utterly convincing on both the physical and emotional levels, and the result may be the most fully formed characterization seen in…

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By Tom Huddlestone (75) for Time Out (7,510) on 16 Jan 2009

Aronofsky directs with unfussy candour, alternating between the intensity of the wrestling and the drabness of Randy's 'real' life…

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By Richard Luck (100) for Film4 (1,522) on 16 Jan 2009

Aronofsky has pulled off that rare feat - he's made a great film about a niche subject that will delight wrestling fans and cineastes alike…

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By James Christopher (268) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 16 Jan 2009

The weakness of Aronofsky's film is that these various sentimental crises are framed with as much subtlety as Randy's wildly overdue heart…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 16 Jan 2009

The Wrestler runs on what are admittedly pretty traditional lines for a sports film, yet runs on them with exhilarating speed and attack…

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By Sukhdev Sandhu (247) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 16 Jan 2009

Not only has he hauled Rourke from his self-pitying slump, but, working from a screenplay written by Robert D Siegel, he has created an often-brutal,…

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By Rob Daniel (202) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 16 Jan 2009

Randy's climactic recreation of a former glory befits a film about someone unable to prevent himself spinning out of control, and is a smackdown…

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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 Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 16 Jan 2009

The platitude-intensive script by Robert Siegel would have been laughed off the screen without Rourke's dogged grandeur…

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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 Armitages. (1) on 16 Jan 2009

Mickey Rourke is outstanding, he completely immerses himself in the role. Great film…

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By Jeff (93) on 16 Jan 2009

Let me say that I have been a wrestling fan all my life, and I started watching the early 80s…

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By Anthony Quinn (478) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 16 Jan 2009

The characters may be stereotypes to us, but they're played here with a love and tenderness and resignation that could break your heart…

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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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