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THE BLEEDER

Philippe Falardeau United States, 2016
Boxing movies have been as much a part of the movie industry's storytelling arsenal as the Western... There's the cinematically rich sleaziness that surrounds the boxing world, bookies and gangsters, the temptations of easy money, drugs, floozies. We've seen it all before. "Chuck" does nothing new, and it moves through boxing tropes like it's ticking off checkmarks, but there's an honesty to it, a fresh and messy one.
May 5, 2017
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Perhaps fittingly given its below-the-marquee protagonist, it's a modest, affectionate piece of portraiture.. If the best boxing movies are the ones that make it feel like something is at stake outside the ring, Philippe Falardeau's film makes the cut via its acute understanding of a certain strain of self-destructive alpha-male pathology. Its true cinematic sparring partner isn't Rocky but Raging Bull.
May 5, 2017
The movie dutifully allows Schreiber to show off his skill as an actor while making us question the need for a narrative movie about Wepner, who is seen in the last shot amiably strolling along the beach with the real-life Linda. "Chuck" takes a small subject and turns it into a basic redemption story, and as such it has some merit. Not much, but just enough.
May 4, 2017
The New York Times
This is a pretty good boxing picture, with credible redemption notes, but one character could be summing up the whole enterprise when she says to Chuck: "There's more to you than meets the eye. Not much. But just enough.
May 3, 2017
The result is a meta-biopic: This is supposed to be the true story behind Rocky, but the reality of Wepner's life — or how he tells it, at least — is still the stuff of Hollywood movies, though this time it's a comedy, driven by a knockout lead performance from Liev Schreiber.
May 3, 2017
Sports and crime films are often so hysterical that this lackadaisical approach to narrative is a relief—at the cost of dramatic immediacy. One comes to wonder how a story so rich in incident can be so wispy and inconsequential.
May 2, 2017
Wepner is aware of the fact that he might really end up a loser and decides to have fun along the way. He's closer, maybe, to Bukowski than Hemingway, a John Huston Misfit reminiscent of that director's Fat City (1972)... Falardeau's vision is too modest to attempt the next Raging Bull, but even if it's no undisputed victory The Bleeder (much like its protagonist during the Ali bout) stands proudly on its own (sometimes wobbly) feet.
September 8, 2016
Very well-made, very sweet-natured and very, very familiar: how strange that Philippe Falardeau‘s "The Bleeder," a based-in-truth film about pretty much the definition of a confrontational sport —boxing— should feel cosy as a down comforter from beginning to end... Credit is due that its familiarity feels less like the ineffectual repetition of platitudes (hi, "Southpaw" we're subtweeting you), and more like bumping into a pal you haven't seen in a while.
September 8, 2016