Hands of Stone
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: August 26, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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12
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15
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 25, 2016
Jakubowicz has made a muscular, messy and vulgar film based on a life that has been all those things. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 25, 2016
Helped by good performances from Edgar Ramirez as Duran, Usher Raymond as Leonard and Robert De Niro as Duran’s trainer, Ray Arcel, the film chugs along well enough, but never rises close to boxing films like “Raging Bull” (few films do) or “Creed.” Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 22, 2016
Gets the job done, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that you’re watching a routinely conceived, rather generic boxing flick. It’s utterly competent, yet it makes Duran’s story seem a little so-what? Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 25, 2016
Falls victim to too many trite boxing-movie clichés and is in way too much of a rush to cover too much narrative ground. It sometimes feels like you’re watching it with a finger on the fast-forward button. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireAug 26, 2016
The performances are really strong, though. That’s what’s so frustrating; you just know there’s a better movie in here waiting to burst free. Read full review
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennyAug 25, 2016
Hands of Stone...is absolutely a boxing movie. A corny and sometimes clumsy one, it scatters pleasures here and there, Mr. De Niro’s alert performance among them. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniAug 25, 2016
This should have been an easy knockout. Yet the pieces just don't fit together. Hands of Stone lurches back and forth between well-crafted dramatic scenes and shabby, cliché-ridden sequences that sap the viewer's energy. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubAug 25, 2016
A film that can’t decide whether it wants to be “Raging Bull” or “Remember the Titans.” In the end, it’s a little too much of both. Read full review
50
IndieWireSteve GreeneAug 25, 2016
In trying to squeeze a half-dozen life stories into its running time, Hands of Stone, the new film about legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, magnifies that disappointing mistake. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 24, 2016
Somehow, Hands Of Stone even manages to make Don King (Reg E. Cathey) seem bloodless. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittAug 23, 2016
Even though the film can’t focus on one subject, Hands of Stone does boast notable performances from its leads, especially Ramirez. Read full review
45
TheWrapRobert AbeleAug 24, 2016
Unfortunately, the new biopic Hands of Stone...is too often content to play like a lot of other boxing flicks instead of forging its own path. Read full review
40
Village VoiceVadim RizovNov 2, 2016
The bouts are all muddles lacking sustained choreography or a sense of trajectory, with crowd-reaction shots and sports-announcer voice-over carrying the slack. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 25, 2016
A boxing movie in desperate need of Martin Scorsese (aren’t they all?). Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanAug 22, 2016
One sees film-making like this and can only say: no más. Read full review
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