DreamWorks Distribution | Release Date: October 13, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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55
It's a polished, beautifully made movie with a rotten heart.
60
Until The Contender slips into partisan politics and platitudinous piety, it's a lively, entertaining ride.
75
Heavy-handed and manipulative, it also proves formidably engrossing.
70
Silly as it is, The Contende has a lurid zest that keeps you hooked, and a rambunctiously good cast.
75
A sharp, intricate political drama.
50
Wonderfully cast and slickly directed, but so crudely written.
88
It's an intelligent and informed look at the preposterous ways our leaders are often picked and sabotaged.
75
Excellent performances in an entertaining if less than totally plausible story.
75
The sort of smutty scandalmongering the average moviegoer can really get behind.
83
An assured and gripping political drama filled with remarkable performances and razor-sharp writing and editing.
63
Misfires by constantly tossing out liberal feel-goodisms.