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Susan Stark, Detroit News: No question, The Contender taps into the modern political zeitgeist. As drama, however, it flails. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Streetsmart and savvy. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: What makes this twisty, cautionary yarn ... delicious is a cast that chews the scenery with such obvious enjoyment. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A vivid, juicy, thoroughly entertaining movie. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The film's lively twists are not too difficult to see coming down the road, but the proceedings still hold our attention and keep us wanting to know how it's going to turn out. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A landslide winner as an emotionally rewarding drama. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: The hit Primary Colors never was. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The Contender booms and pontificates, full of bravado and that ineffable quality of the current political season, chutzpah. Read more
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is one of those rare movies where you leave the theater having been surprised and entertained, and then start arguing. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Bury itself under a steaming heap of plot contrivance, equivocation and preachiness. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Read more
Emanuel Levy, Variety: The large, talented cast elevates the film above the trappings of its loquacious debates. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Cheesy. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Thoroughly engrossing. Read more