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Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Grudge Match has wasted its two talented stars so badly that it almost counts as elder abuse. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Even the audience at whom the movie is aimed - the crowd for whom dinner and a movie means meeting up at 3 p.m. - will be bored by the stale funk coming off every scene. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: The picture itself isn't awful. It's just listless and lackluster with lots of dead air between the laughs. Read more
Andrew Barker, Variety: The result is sporadically amusing, with some chucklesome sight gags and crowdpleasing supporting turns from Alan Arkin and Kevin Hart, yet it's all so overcooked that it defeats its own purpose. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: It's exactly as cliched as it sounds. What's unexpected, however, is the sensitivity and sense of perspective that Grudge Match brings to much of this secondhand material. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: This is a wretched movie, trading on characters we revere, yet doing nothing to honor them. Read more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: A match-up that comes about three decades late. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The jokes are clumsy, the dramatic scenes stale and lifeless; like the climactic bout, the movie itself is a freak show, a fantasy matchup between two icons with nothing better to do than spend down their legacies. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: Stick with your memories of Rocky Balboa and Jake La Motta, because "Grudge Match" isn't a fight worth fighting. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: By the time Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro start training for the big match -- it's called Grudgment Day -- you give in because, surprisingly, both actors have reported for duty, especially De Niro. Read more
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: "Raging Bull" it ain't -- it's not even "Rocky IV." Read more
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Pleasant but underwhelming, it feels like something that belongs on the undercard, never reaching the heights of a main event. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Although he has no debts to us, perhaps it's time De Niro really considered if he doesn't owe himself a little more. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: In the end, this is no Ali-Frazier grudge match. It's more like Larry Holmes coming out of retirement to make $3 million as Mike Tyson's punching bag. Depressing. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: [An] overlong, drab, not-so-funny sports comedy ... Read more
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: Grudge Match is harmless enough as entertainment. Just not as harmless as its poor protagonists. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The underlying premise of Grudge Match is appealing, even if the execution is lackluster. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: "Grudge Match" at its core is an affront to the cinema gods, an attempt to capitalize off two iconic films for a few cheap laughs. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: Remembering the greatness of Rocky and Raging Bull while watching Grudge Match only made me sad. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: While Stallone (67) and De Niro (70) have done a commendable job keeping their waistlines in check, the vision of the two actors shuffling about the ring in an awkwardly choreographed slapfest is not inspiring. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Grudge Match reeks not of ringside liniment and sweat but rather a late-career cash grab for its stars as they exploit far better work done years earlier. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Go watch Rocky and Raging Bull again. Because, as they say at closed-casket funerals, it's better to remember them as they were. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: A desultory boxing flick whose punches miss wildly as entertainment but manage to chip away at the iconic legends who return to the ring after decades away from the sweet science. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: Drab and plodding as a matter of principle. Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: The result is maybe more interesting than we might have expected, but it's not particularly funny. Read more
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: When Razor and the Kid are supposed to be publicly promoting their bout and instead devolve into bickering buffoonery, there's nothing but ill-timed punch lines where the chemistry between Stallone and De Niro should be. Read more