Price of Glory
New Line Cinema | Release Date: March 31, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
8
Negative:
11
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85
Mr. ShowbizOther (Specify)
Complaints? None, except perhaps a wish for more length, and a little more depth. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
A movie that features rich Mexican American characters and an uncompromising story line is always timely. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Price of Glory won't make anyone forget "Raging Bull" or "Rocky." Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie, while heartfelt and vividly shot, takes too many rote genre turns. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
Hollywood keeps turning out boxing movies. Price of Glory is the latest to step into the ring and face an increasingly no-win situation Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Fathers and sons with problems expressing their feelings makes for a story that is universal, and that has also been done to death. Thankfully, the boxing scenes are extensive and pack the appropriate punch. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
When the film suddenly turns into "Rocky" -- as all boxing films of the past two decades invariably do -- it invalidates its theme. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A boxing movie that exists in that gray area between prototypical and typical, the quintessential and run-of-the-mill. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Price of Glory isn't an embarrassment on the order of the last major boxing movie, "Play It to the Bone," but it's not especially worth intercepting on its way to the video racks. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Despite excellent performances all around, the actors can't overcome the script's limitations. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Made me feel like I was sitting in McDonald's watching some guy shout at his kids. Price of Glory gives us two hours of that behavior, and it's a miscalculation so basic that it makes the movie painful when it wants, I guess, to be touching. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldCurtis Morgan
Moves too slowly, running out of gas in the later rounds of the plot. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A pretty good film, acted powerfully . Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesEric Harrison
The specificity of Glory's setting and the ethnicity of its characters enrich the story without moving it one iota away from a mainstream frame of reference. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Stumbles over its own clumsiness until it goes down for the count. Read full review
30
Film.comSean Means
It's not easy to go 12 rounds against a cliche-ridden story like Price of Glory and remain standing. But somehow stars Jimmy Smits and Jon Seda, and first-time director Carlos Avila, manage to survive. Read full review
20
Dallas ObserverM. V. Moorhead
Predictable and conventional and unadventurous. It can't really be defended, except that it's comfortably enjoyable. Read full review
20
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
In films, as in the ring, heart and will without exceptional talent don't produce winners. Read full review
20
Washington PostRita Kempley
Smits can't wrench free of this tangle of cliches. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The film is a TKO before it even had a chance to get off a decent hook. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The labored storytelling in this movie about displaced ambition diminishes the impact of the powerful performances. Read full review
20
VarietyTodd McCarthy
May hold some appeal for Latino auds in the Southwest but will fold after a couple of rounds in the big arena. Read full review
20
Film.comErnest Hardy
Not a very good movie; it's sentimental, pandering and psychologically anorexic. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
It's outclassed by the memory of just about every prizefighting flick you've ever seen. Read full review
10
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Contrived and contrived sloppily, this self-adoring soap even manages to make its all-Hispanic cast seem unconvincing -- except for Seda. Read full review
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