Southpaw
Billy 'The Great' Hope is enjoying an impressive career as a boxer but the tables turn and he needs to fight to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career
26 November 1990, Pristina, Kosovo, Yugoslavia
January1978, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
July 21, 1989 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
10 October 1970, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
8 May 1992, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
17 November 1978, London, Ontario, Canada
4 October 1964, California, USA
December 10, 1973 in State College, Pennsylvania, USA
9 February 1969, Miami, Florida, USA
July 14, 2016
Dull tale of boxing and redemption provides actors showcase.
July 26, 2015
Southpaw isn't content with presenting a gallery of clichéd characters. It takes the time to put flesh on the bones.
July 24, 2015
Just as director Antoine Fuqua starts to close in on something interesting and unexpected, he retreats to the safety of his corner and gives us what we've seen too many times before: a predictable flurry of melodramatic jabs.
July 10, 2016
It's an unsurprising portrayal of an obvious part, but at least [Gyllenhaal] executes it terribly well, something that cannot be said for the remainder of an equally unsurprising, obvious motion picture.
March 06, 2017
An aesthetic journey that goes from the top of the American dream to its abyss, to propose then a kind of return to life. [Full review in Spanish]
July 29, 2015
The modicum of pleasure delivered by "Southpaw" arrives thanks to its cast, who struggle bravely and energetically with the hopelessly bland text and the invisible, impersonal direction.
July 24, 2015
I veered between being awed and appalled, though mostly the latter.
August 25, 2016
Can be too conventional at times because of its calculated and cliche script but the director compensates it with a dynamic staging. [Full review in Spanish]
June 01, 2016
Southpaw may not bring anything new to the table but there's a nostalgic comfort in watching Billy -- a hardened stereotypical male who is willing to risk disastrous injury for love and glory both in and outside the ring.
July 24, 2015
When you look past Fuqua's jittery directing, which dices up shots and leans the camera close into its star's painstakingly battered mug, Southpaw is a melange of familiar fighter movie ideas and images going back to Rocky.
June 12, 2016
About as subtle as a right uppercut to the jaw, Southpaw is nonetheless a welcome addition to the boxing melodrama genre.
July 24, 2015
"Southpaw" is a tremendous accomplishment of mainstream cinematic craft, a near-perfect match of director, material and star.
