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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It may be that only Spencer Tracy and Paul Newman (and can someone explain to me how Eastwood and Newman have avoided making a movie together?) aged as well and as interestingly onscreen. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: One of the many pleasures of this beautifully composed, measured movie is how it reminds you of the power of pure storytelling -- an art that's too often overlooked in contemporary films in the rush for sensation and excitement. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Baby has the taut, grim, cold look of a noir out of time. It becomes a classic Eastwood movie and Frankie becomes a classic Eastwood role. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Perhaps the director's most touching, most elegiac work yet, Million Dollar Baby is a film that does both the expected and the unexpected, that has the nerve and the will to be as pitiless as it is sentimental. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: [A] solid boxing drama. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The new picture takes its time, gives its actors room to breathe, and isn't afraid to strike a hokey note if it reveals something important. Real life, after all, is full of hokiness. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Eastwood scores a knockout as an actor and director with Million Dollar Baby, a spare, exquisitely realized masterpiece about faith, redemption and boxing that beautifully illustrates his longtime philosophy that 'less is more.' Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: An unsettling and unforgettable masterpiece of skid-row poetry that punctures the heart. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: No movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Barely a year after the release of Mystic River, Clint Eastwood delivers a second consecutive drama that fearlessly probes the shadows of human morality without falling back on easy answers. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: It is thoughtful, unfashionable, measured, mostly honest, sometimes clumsy or remote, often exciting, occasionally moving and eventually surprising. It's correct. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's rare that we see a movie that gives its characters a spiritual dimension; and rarer still that the director isn't making a heavy-handed statement with it. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It has the gloom and transcendence of an old man's wisdom. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Deeply involving. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The picture uses the familiar boxing milieu -- the dingy gym, the late-night training sessions, the build-up to the Big Bout -- as background for a far more intimate and surprising love story between a surrogate father and a surrogate daughter. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Though conventional in many respects, it feels like no other boxing film ever made, due largely to Eastwood's unmistakable presence on both sides of the camera. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Saying this movie is about boxing is akin to saying Citizen Kane is about a sled. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The performances of the three leads are perfect, so we don't care that we don't know what lies right outside the Hit Pit. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: When you think you know its moves, it throws in fancy footwork. Then it sucker-punches you when you're not looking. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: The film works on every level -- acting, direction and production -- as it tells its heartfelt story about human frailty and the power of redemption. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Confident, powerful, a thing of deceptively effortless beauty, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby shifts its weight in the late rounds -- having seduced us with a gritty underdog tale -- and delivers a body blow. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It may be a classically staged tale of an underdog's triumph, but each scene is packed with authentic feeling. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Million Dollar Baby is one for the books. It could have gone wrong in ways that would reduce it to a series of stereotypes. But it never does. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: A deeply knowing study of families abandoned and found, battles won and lost, dreams realized and deferred. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: The only differences between this new film and its many forebears are that the young hopeful is a woman and the finish is unforeseen. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: As an actor, Eastwood has rarely taken on a character as complex as Frankie Dunn. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: [An] evocative and poetic boxing movie. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Eastwood delivers a ferociously emotional tale that matches, and in some respects surpasses, the artistry of last year's Mystic River. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A movie that approaches the level of great boxing films, like Raging Bull, by using sport as a metaphor for human nature. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Clint Eastwood's drama about a grizzled boxing trainer and a spunky young fighter is the best movie released by a major Hollywood studio this year. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Eastwood deserves another Best Picture nomination. Here's a man who has finally put Dirty Harry to rest. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is a masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: It's impressive, in the sense that a sucker-punch impresses itself on your skull. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's a story about passion and dedication to a dream. It's a story about the need to believe in yourself and what you're doing. It's a story about lost opportunities and second chances. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: The movie is simultaneously conventional and subversive, broad and nuanced, shamelessly manipulative and genuinely moving, a cheap sucker punch and a work of real moral weight. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Like a title bout that goes through seven rounds of friendly push and poke before exploding into a knockout combination. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A story well told about lessons well learned, and if Clint wants to keep making more like them, he should. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Like Eastwood, it's a relic that dazzles you with its footwork, daring and class. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: As good as Unforgiven. Or, to put it another way, as good as any movie Eastwood has ever directed. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Slow-burning drama of a determined female boxer and her hard-shelled trainer, a tale Eastwood invests with rewarding reserves of intimacy, tragedy, tenderness and bitter life knowledge. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Eastwood's point of view has been seasoned enough to locate poignancy and respect for his protagonists where you least expect -- saying it's an old man's movie is a serious compliment. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: As Maggie, Swank is a package of dynamite, a determined soul with too much to prove and too little time to do it in, to worry about defeat. Eastwood is so good in this movie, it almost feels like cheating. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The result is the kind of movie they don't make anymore -- a real crowd-pleaser. Read more