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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The GuardianNigel M SmithThe GuardianNigel M SmithFalardeau draws exceptional character work from his cast.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungFalardeau, who made his mark with the Oscar-nominated teacher-student tale Monsieur Lazhar, again brings real tenderness to his portrait of a man in trouble.
- 80Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallThe ‘I could have been a contender’ brand of sports movie gets a twist in this tasty, if minor-key, biopic.
- 75The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Bleeder isn’t attempting to reinvent any wheels, but it is consistently gripping — slick as a skip rope and just one hell of a story.
- 75The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangVery 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.
- 60CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleThis affectionate portrait in failure is more in the tone of Darren Aronofky's Venice winner The Wrestler, carried mainly by a brilliantly swollen performance by Schrieber, full of humour and bluff and yet with an intelligence to learn his lessons, slowly, but learn them.
- 50We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoThe Bleeder is a surface-value, party-first boxing dramedy that pulls its punches and goes too far into "charismatic sleazeball" territories.
- 50TheWrapDan CallahanTheWrapDan CallahanChuck takes a small subject and turns it into a basic redemption story, and as such it has some merit. Not much, but just enough.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenLike its protagonist, Philippe Falardeau's film gets lost in a haze of incidental cacophony.