The Cut
Republic Pictures | Release Date: September 5, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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10
Negative:
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75
TheWrapSteve PondSep 13, 2024
The film is bookended by quiet scenes between a man and a woman, by beautifully understated performances by Bloom and Balfe. Understatement in a boxing movie? If you look past the savagery of the middle hour, that could be the craziest thing about this new take on an old genre. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennySep 4, 2025
Bloom plays his role with a feral commitment, and while Turturro has portrayed several villains in his career, here his refusal to ingratiate even slightly yields a genuinely frightening characterization. Read full review
70
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaSep 13, 2024
While there’s a more streamlined and thus more effective version of “The Cut” in there somewhere, what remains on screen is plenty harrowing as it is, and allows Bloom to finally cement himself as a truly great performer — not for the lengths he’s willing to go, but for the spellbinding end result. Read full review
67
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodSep 13, 2024
Ellis ratches up the intensity to an almost stomach-turning level. It’s partially the filmmaking. It’s also the recognition of how dangerous this mortality game has become. Read full review
60
The TimesTom ShoneSep 6, 2025
The poster might as well read “come see Orlando Bloom get put through the wringer”. It’s awesome on some level but it’s not much else. Read full review
60
Screen DailyAllan HunterSep 4, 2025
An increasingly overwrought approach undermines its better instincts and creates an uneven affair. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 13, 2024
While the point of the film is excellent, The Cut has a bit too much trauma. It’s like the writers wanted to throw everything at Boxer and see if he could survive it, but it’s a lot. Read full review
58
IndieWireWilson ChapmanSep 13, 2024
It’s easy to imagine a performer more attuned to deliver intense, driven performances unlock the full potential of this character. As it is, The Cut never quite cuts as deep as you want it to. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 16, 2025
Perhaps little more workshopping this script was in order, because the three main characters put on their own three act play in the film’s latter half. Everything that delays packing us in that pressure cooker with them undercuts the most novel version of “a boxing picture” that most of us have ever seen. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiSep 5, 2025
This is a bleak nugget of a film that is trying so hard to take the typical sports movie narrative and unleash its darker and more nightmarish side that it runs out of steam long before arriving at its frustratingly oblique conclusion. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerSep 13, 2024
Despite a trio of knockout performances, The Cut is a lackluster boxing drama. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeySep 6, 2025
The all-round exertion is immense, but the experience is a bizarre ordeal. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeSep 4, 2025
The Cut is ultimately too broad, cliched and preposterous to take the belt. Still, it was brave to go where it went. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 13, 2024
The more British director Sean Ellis prods and provokes, the hokier it all gets, a film about cutting weight that could have benefited from a leaner edit. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 9, 2024
At the start, “The Cut” is an adequate, typical gloves-and-shoves picture. And then, with a snap of the fingers, director Sean Ellis’ film turns absolutely interminable. Read full review
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