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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    While Rodriguez punches through the indie clutter to announce herself as a superb new movie talent, so Kusama scores big points in her first main event. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's always about more than boxing. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Luminously understated. Read full review

  • 80
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Emanuel Levy

    Blends in a most satisfying manner the conventions of several genres, resulting in a coherent picture that is at once a poignant inner-city drama, a rousing sports movie, an emotional family yarn and, above all, a sweet romance. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    A powerful and empathetic melodrama with feminist underpinnings. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    The movie belongs to Ms. Rodriguez. With her slightly crooked nose and her glum, sensual mouth, she looks a little like Marlon Brando in his smoldering prime, and she has some of his slow, intense physicality. She doesn't so much transcend gender as redefine it. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    The movie belongs to Rodriguez: A gorgeous woman with a powerful body and the face of an Aztec princess, she's also a natural talent who instinctively understands the importance of economy in good acting. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

    A coming-of-age tale that truly floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    A scrappy independent film that packs the same emotional punch as "Rocky." Read full review

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