Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 28, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
16
ColliderChase HutchinsonMay 2, 2023
It can be said the film does indeed provide a full summary of Foreman’s recounting of the major events in his life where he comes out looking pretty great, but that hardly makes for a compelling work of cinema. Read full review
60
The New YorkerRichard BrodyMay 1, 2023
The story of young George’s childhood and rise to fame has a tense and turbulent charm, but the story of the professional heavyweight’s dash to the championship and everything that follows (up through the nineteen-nineties) has a whiff of a ghostwritten corporate autobiography. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 28, 2023
Big George Foreman isn’t bad exactly, merely serviceable. You keep waiting for it to deliver a knockout blow that never comes. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeApr 28, 2023
The film stumbles sluggishly from one chapter in Foreman’s life to the next. Read full review
40
EmpireJohn NugentApr 28, 2023
An all-too conventional look at an unconventional man, Big George Foreman is, alas, a swing and a miss. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubTimothy CogshellApr 27, 2023
Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World is an excellent movie about a beloved figure who indeed seems ageless and whose story includes the kind of comebacks usually reserved for fiction. Read full review
40
The New York TimesGlenn KennyApr 27, 2023
It’s a movie with its heart in the right place and its sense of drama nowhere in sight. Read full review
33
IndieWireChristian ZilkoApr 27, 2023
It’s almost impressive that Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World is so dull. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchKatie WalshApr 27, 2023
One can’t help but feel that the man himself — grill and all — is so much more fascinating than this rote representation. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 27, 2023
The movie thumps through successive events of Foreman’s amazing life in efficient, unsubtle, on-the-nose style, skating over his many marriages a little. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 27, 2023
It’s prosaic and conventional and a touch stolid, but it stays true to the facts and the spirit of the man (he’s both sinner and saint), and the saga they add up to is singular in the history of sports. Read full review
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