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A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.
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Reviews
80
Falardeau draws exceptional character work from his cast.
80
Falardeau, 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.
80
The ‘I could have been a contender’ brand of sports movie gets a twist in this tasty, if minor-key, biopic.
75
The Film Stage
The 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.
75
Very 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.
