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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: There's an effective, unstylized authenticity to those fights. A life or death mania, which enhanced the film's credibility. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: You might expect a movie called Fighting to be a blunt, literal affair, and in the case of Dito Montiel's new film, you would not be wrong. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: The screenplay about a hunky street vendor turned underground fighter (Channing Tatum of Stop-Loss) is sloppy and false. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: Still, the biggest problem with ighting is that Fight Club (which was released 10 years ago) got there first. On almost every level -- pacing, humor, originality, the choreography of the fight scenes -- Fighting can't touch it. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Though its rough-around-the-edges style occasionally veers into outright sloppiness, the film is an antidote to slick studio product like 2008's MMA advertisement Never Back Down, and it infuses even its cliches with the poetry of the everyday. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Too dumb to be taken seriously and too slow to be a fun and mindless B flick, Fighting ends up being not much of anything. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie courses with the crazy energy and urban life that usually get sapped out of these tales of men beating the life out of each other. This one feels almost electrically authentic. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: It is Tatum's performance that leads us to praise men of brute innocence. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Disarmingly entertaining. Read more
Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: Murderously dull stretches of dialogue suck most of the fun out of this sloppy drama about a country boy trying to make a buck in the big city by moonlighting as an underground prizefighter. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: White-knuckle action and bruisingly bad dialogue make for an uneven but wildly entertaining fight flick. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: The fights may not be very convincing, but the story's underdog structure is satisfying in a happy-cliche sort of way. Fighting is Rocky without the bombast, Fight Club without the daft metaphysical pretensions. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's a better movie inside it struggling to get out. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: By making good use of its New York setting, Montiel does bring a certain indie grit to the generic story. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Fighting arrives fully charged by the charisma of its star, Channing Tatum. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The director plays a visual game of three card monte on us for this silly, weakly acted and yet sometimes entertaining variation on the 'Big Fight' movie formula. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I like the way the personalities are allowed to upstage the plot in Fighting, a routine three-act fight story that creates uncommonly interesting characters. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: In a genre where too many films are all brawn and no brain, Fighting is a contender. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's all footnotes, hardly any main story, and overcompensates by jacking up the violence. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Though by no means original or especially ambitious, Fighting turns out to be a surprisingly watchable B-movie. Read more
Greg Quill, Toronto Star: Rock musician-turned-director Dito Montiel fails to make much of a fist with his second feature, Fighting, though he deserves points for trying to add some contemporary New York City grit. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: The tell-it-as-it-is title hardly indicates anything out of the ordinary, but this bare-knuckle boxing flick is put together with more love than you'd expect. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: This story of a country boy who goes to the big city and uses his brawn to make his way is so slow it's almost inert. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: It's like an exploitation movie that thinks it's an art movie, only there's no art to be found. Read more
Dan Kois, Washington Post: As painful as the movie's bloody bare-knuckle brawls can be to watch, they don't hold a candle to the frightening spectacle of Tatum brooding or, yikes, Terrence Howard doing whatever it is Terrence Howard's doing in this movie. Read more