Critic Reviews
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Tom Charity, CNN.com
Resurrecting the Champ is authentic in its newsroom scenes, and appropriately concerned at how entertainment value trumps diligent reporting.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Despite one great performance and an intriguing setup, the work is crippled by another performance that's nowhere near great, and a storyline that makes it impossible to root for the leading man.
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Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal
The movie itself -- which deals (not very interestingly) with the issue of journalistic integrity and (very predictably) with father-son relationships -- doesn't pack much of a wallop.
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
While Resurrecting the Champ seems to be just what you expect, it's only when you've let your guard slip that you realize it's hiding something altogether more forceful in its glove.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Resurrecting the Champ is enjoyable in the moment -- But it's the complexity of Lurie's moral universe that makes it linger in the mind.
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Cast
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Samuel L. Jacksonas Battling Bob Satterfield -
Josh Hartnettas Erik Kernan -
Kathryn Morrisas Joyce
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Alan Aldaas Metz -
Teri Hatcheras Flak -
David Paymeras Whitely
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