The Champ

The original film took 85 minutes, this one 121; the extra length has not improved the story. ( Read More )

David Nusair

...an often egregiously deliberate drama that rarely (if ever) wholeheartedly grabs the viewers interest and attention... ( Read More )

Emanuel Levy

Zeffirellis inferior remake to King Vidors 1932 classic, starring Jon Voight in the Oscar winning role that Wallace Beery had originated, is a manipulative tear jerking melodrama. ( Read More )

Vincent Canby

These movies dont mean to deal with the world as it really is, but as it should be, a place where theres no pile up of emotional garbage too big that it cant be washed clean by a good cry. ( Read More )

Dave Kehr

The tear jerking is so determined and persistent that your ducts feel as if theyd been worked over with a catheter. ( Read More )