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Movie Review: Million Dollar Baby The Oscar™-nominated Million Dollar Baby is finally showing in wide release and, with all of the media and critical acclaim, it was a given that I'd be buying my tickets the moment the film arrived in my own cineplex. Million Dollar Baby is a good movie, but it's not a great one despite its pretentions in that regard. Million Dollar Baby is rated PG-13 for "violence, some disturbing images, thematic material, [and] language." I don't believe much of the movie is appropriate for those under 13, and many of those over 13 will be bored by it. www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2005/million-dollar-baby.html   (1268 words)

TheMovieBoy Review - Million Dollar Baby (2004) His latest motion picture, "Million Dollar Baby," is his most complete and compelling achievement of the last decade, a wrenching, exquisitely acted drama set in the world of boxing that, thematically, has nothing to do with the sport. Essentially, "Million Dollar Baby" is the story of a man in search of the acceptance of his daughter and a young woman without a father who are brought together just when they need a connection most, forming a close relationship more powerfully symbolic than that of student and mentor. "Million Dollar Baby" is a wonderfully welcome surprise, a film that, like 2004's "Sideways," seemingly comes out of nowhere and blindsides you with its invigorating throwback to the days of non-flashy, vastly poignant character pieces, the kind that have become nearly extinct in today's cinematic landscape. www.themovieboy.com /reviews/m/04_milliondollarbaby.htm   (777 words)

Million Dollar Baby Movie Review at Hollywood Video Million Dollar Baby is the best movie that's not really about boxing since the original Rocky. While Million Dollar Baby isn't the pinnacle of his acting or directing career, it's far higher up the peak than most directors will reach in their lifetime. Million Dollar Baby may be set primarily in the gym and the boxing ring, but Eastwood's understated direction and the stars' superb performances elevate this film above the standard, predictable sports fare. www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139599   (2142 words)

CNN.com - Review: 'Million Dollar Baby' a rich experience - Dec 15, 2004 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-11.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Indeed, "Million Dollar Baby" is destined to cause a feeding frenzy among Academy Awards voters. With "Million Dollar Baby," this Hollywood veteran has once again found material allowing him to rip away the façade of his characters and expose the raw emotions beneath the surface. "Million Dollar Baby" is a profound testament to the idea that sometimes the families we make along the way in life are the real ties that bind. www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/15/review.baby/index.html   (773 words)

HD DVD Review: Million Dollar Baby | High-Def Digest It is also, despite what you may have heard, not a "message movie." It's surprise left hook does tackle a topical issue, but ultimately it is a tale of redemption through sacrifice, that uses the boxing ring as a metaphor for our human quest for respect and validation. Encoded in 1080p, 'Million Dollar Baby' is certainly a true test in how much detail a given video format can deliver. Sure, 'Baby' is not really a movie made to be demo material, but in terms of fine gradations of color, fl level and contrast, there are shots here that are as good as anything I've seen yet on HD-DVD. hddvd.highdefdigest.com /milliondollarbaby.html   (1707 words)

:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Million Dollar Baby (xhtml) Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" is a masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true. "Million Dollar Baby" is Eastwood's 25th film as a director, and his best. She wins from the beginning, but that's not the point; "Million Dollar Baby" is about a woman determined to make something of herself, and a man who doesn't want to do anything for this woman, and will finally do everything. rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041214/REVIEWS/41201004/1023   (1152 words)

Filmtracks: Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) Million Dollar Baby: (Clint Eastwood) Edging the Martin Scorsese film The Aviator for the 'best picture' and 'best director' honors at the 2005 Academy Awards, Million Dollar Baby earned Clint Eastwood both of those Oscars, and well as acting awards for the film's other two top stars. Million Dollar Baby falls along all of these familiar patterns, providing the story of a young female boxer and a hardened boxing trainer, both struggling with their own failed family relationships. The tragedy that occurs is as the story progresses is necessary to understand the original score, although it should be noted that despite the general unhappiness that prevails in the film, it was both a critical and popular success. www.filmtracks.com /titles/million_dollar.html   (900 words)

Shadow Boxing: Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" Every frame of "Million Dollar Baby" -- a movie of insoluble dilemmas, questions that the work has good sense enough not to suppose solutions to -- is suffused with an attitude of genuine curiosity. If "Million Dollar Baby" has any immediate importance apart from its casual grace and beautifully modulated emotion -- virtues at any time -- it's in reminding us that true consideration requires space and calm, not the pugilistic fervor of the movie meat market. "Million Dollar Baby"'s conceit (revelatory, if only for Hollywood, so insistent on tidiness and "redemption") requires audience participation: Good deeds often go unrewarded, and life's pain oftentimes cannot subside, but as viewers, our empathy, compassion, and love can be the only cleansing agent. www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_050111million.html   (1271 words)

OFFOFFOFF film review MILLION DOLLAR BABY movie with Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike ... So it would be hard for "Million Dollar Baby" to go wrong, especially when the one strapping on the gloves is a nails-for-breakfast Hilary Swank. "Million Dollar Baby" is a very strong movie —; not only impeccably acted but also demonstrating Eastwood's directorial skill with his films' look and pacing. "Million Dollar Baby" is quite a one-two combination — both a well-made genre flick and an earnest shot at humanizing some serious issues. www.offoffoff.com /film/2005/milliondollarbaby.php   (825 words)

Movie Review - Million Dollar Baby That's not to say that Million Dollar Baby is the next feel-good inspirational sports movie guaranteed to make you dust off the ol' sneakers. Million Dollar Baby tells a story that will truly move your soul and leave a lasting impression. She talks about what it's like to be a boxer and how Maggie's life in the movie is patterned from her own experiences, including a time early in her career when she bought her unappreciative mother a house. www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/2004/milliondollarbaby.htm   (1231 words)

'Million Dollar Baby' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com 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. A tale of the power and cost of dreams set in the unforgiving world of professional boxing, it's got some of the emotional daring of the great melodramas of Hollywood's golden age, when films considered it a badge of honor to wear their heart on their sleeve. There's nothing glib or trendy about "Million Dollar Baby"; the movie is in no hurry getting started, and it even takes a leisurely detour into the story of a fighter named Danger that it could have done without. www.calendarlive.com /movies/turan/cl-et-million15dec15,2,5269428.story   (1115 words)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Dark, edgy, subtle and at times emotionally devastating, MILLION DOLLAR BABY represents the apotheosis of Eastwood's art - the most lucid and intelligently limned expression of his philosophy of the outsider, the noble loners whose personal codes of honour set them both above and apart from the compromised, corrupt societies they inhabit. In MILLION DOLLAR BABY, though, Eastwood the director brings a fresh eye and an entirely fresh approach to both the setting and characterisations, virtually re-inventing this venerable sub-genre rather than simply recycling its conventions. MILLION DOLLAR BABY is not only the best film released in 2004 it is also the most fully realised and richly textured major studio movie of the decade. www.imdb.com /title/tt0405159   (680 words)

Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood): Clint Eastwood Hilary Swank Morgan Freeman (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) About two-thirds into the film, Million Dollar Baby takes a radical turn toward tragedy that is as unexpected as the rest of the film is predictable. Watching Million Dollar Baby, which is chiefly based on one of F.X. Toole’s short stories, we have the impression of having gotten two movies for the price of one. Elsewhere, Million Dollar Baby belongs to Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, who immerses herself in a role with “Oscar” written all over it—the fact that she is once again playing a girl performing “a man’s job,” even if less radically so than in her award-winning work in Boys Don’t Cry, is possibly no coincidence. www.altfg.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Reviews/Milliondollarbaby2004.htm   (2334 words)

Million Dollar Baby (2004): Reviews With its careful, unassuming naturalism, its visual thrift and its emotional directness, Million Dollar Baby feels at once contemporary and classical, a work of utter mastery that at the same time has nothing in particular to prove. Baby may not be quite as compelling as Mystic River or Unforgiven, but there's something so stirring, and disquieting, too, in his quest that we cannot help but pay close attention to him. It is Clint Eastwood's baby in every respect — a movie that approaches the level of great boxing films, like "Raging Bull," by using sport as a metaphor for human nature. www.metacritic.com /film/titles/milliondollarbaby   (1492 words)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Million Dollar Baby suggests, perhaps, that the right and most loving thing to do for someone else may entail one’s own damnation. These are Million Dollar Baby’s bread and butter, and while it doesn’t quite transcend the genre and its conventions, a polished script, canny direction, and top-notch performances make it fresh and entertaining if not quite totally compelling. Million Dollar Baby is arguably too nuanced to dismiss as mere pro-euthanasia propaganda. decentfilms.com /reviews/milliondollarbaby.html   (2287 words)

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"Million Dollar Baby" - Salon "Million Dollar Baby" is generating astonishing critical word of mouth, figuring prominently in the year-end voting for critics awards and winning Eastwood best-directing honors from the New York Film Critics Circle. A compendium of every cliché from every bad boxing melodrama ever made, "Million Dollar Baby" (written by Paul Haggis from stories by F.X. Toole) tries to transcend its cornball overfamiliarity with the qualities that have long characterized Eastwood's direction -- it's solemn, inflated and dull. "Million Dollar Baby" is a piece of ham intended for those who keep kosher. www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2004/12/15/million_dollar/index.html   (734 words)

Amazon.ca: Million Dollar Baby (2-Disc Widescreen Edition): DVD: Clint Eastwood,Ned Eisenberg,Brian Finney,Ted ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) The best decision made by director Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby is to allow Clint Eastwood the performer to drop his screen persona and actually act. Million Dollar Baby is a truly magnificent film that does indeed hearken back to the old days when movies touched lives rather than merely entertained. Million Dollar Baby plays on the level of Greek tragedy, and that's something you can say of only a handful of recent movies. www.amazon.ca /Million-Dollar-Baby-2-Disc-Widescreen/dp/B00005JNP1   (2357 words)

Million Dollar Baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Million Dollar Baby is an Academy Award winning 2004 dramatic film directed by Clint Eastwood. Million Dollar Baby received the Best Picture of 2004 at the 77th Academy Awards. Million Dollar Baby is classical in the clean, clear, strong lines of its story and characters, and had an enormous emotional impact" [9]. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Million_Dollar_Baby   (1948 words)

Amazon.com: Million Dollar Baby: Music: Clint Eastwood,Kyle / Stevens, Michael Eastwood,Lennie Niehaus,Hollywood Studio ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) However, "Million Dollar Baby" is one of his better scores, my personal favorite next to "Unforgiven." The first half really is a lot of simple alternations on the same theme, going back and forth between a solo aucoustic guitar and solo piano, with occasional light string accompaniment. The score to Clint Eastwood's 'Million Dollar Baby' is perhaps the most beautiful film music I have ever heard. The sound, most notably in the solo Guitar and Piano sections carries a simple, but thoroughly elegant, characteristic, and haunting melody that speaks right to the center of what this film is all about--pain, love, soul-searching, and finding hope, to name a few. www.amazon.com /Million-Dollar-Baby-Clint-Eastwood/dp/B0007O38FI   (1307 words)

Million Dollar Baby DVD - Official Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) Million Dollar Baby is now available on DVD and video, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman and boxing fans can preview video clips from Million Dollar Baby and order the DVD or video, review the film synopsis, cast and crew info, behinds the scenes photos, Million Dollar Baby screensavers, buddy icons and wallpapers, plus mobile content, sweepstakes and contests and more. Million Dollar Baby, now available on DVD and video. milliondollarbabymovie.warnerbros.com   (287 words)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Eastwood's Baby scoops top Oscars Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby beat Martin Scorsese's The Aviator to the top awards at the Oscars on Sunday. Hilary Swank picked up her second best actress Oscar for playing a female boxer in Million Dollar Baby, beating stars including Annette Bening, Kate Winslet and Imelda Staunton. Million Dollar Baby's success was the night's biggest surprise after The Aviator seemed to have the advantage until the end of the ceremony. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4294237.stm   (696 words)

Million Dollar Baby A few hours ago, two days before this year's Oscar event, I finally got around to watching Million Dollar Baby, and, despite horrific conditions in the theater, moronic audience members and a slightly out of focus screen, Million Dollar Baby flat out floored me. Million Dollar Baby is, however, one of Clint's best works ever. Million Dollar Baby, the screenplay, is the short stories from the book of short stories, Rope Burns, stories from the corner, by F. Toole. hugereviews.com /Movies/M/million_dollar_baby.htm   (812 words)

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