Like Eastwood, it's a relic that dazzles you with its footwork, daring and class.
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Million Dollar Baby (2004)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:37
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.6/10
Consensus: Critics are calling Clint Eastwood's latest a knockout, with fine performances and filmmaking that elevate clichéd material to new emotional heights.
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 15, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $100,422,786
Synopsis: Released a little over a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature MYSTIC RIVER, Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for MILLION DOLLAR BABY. Eastwood also stars, in the... [More]
Starring: Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Jay Baruchel
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Reviews for Million Dollar Baby
Top CriticClint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is a masterpiece, pure and simple, deep and true.
02/06/07
Top CriticA glorious knockout punch of a movie.
01/15/05
Top CriticNo movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby.
01/13/05
Top CriticThe result is the kind of movie they don't make anymore -- a real crowd-pleaser.
01/07/05
Top CriticWhen you think you know its moves, it throws in fancy footwork. Then it sucker-punches you when you're not looking.
01/07/05
Top CriticIt may be that only Spencer Tracy and Paul Newman (and can someone explain to me how Eastwood and Newman have avoided making a movie together?) aged as well and as interestingly onscreen.
01/07/05
Top CriticIt's a weeper, a fighter, a dreamer of a film that treads on ground that's been fairly trampled over the years. It should stink. Instead, it's flat-out wonderful.
01/07/05
Top CriticEastwood takes another whack at the cliches on which his career was built. He's made a deliberately paced and surprisingly provocative movie about the toll of failure and the torments of responsibility.
01/07/05
Top CriticConfident, powerful, a thing of deceptively effortless beauty, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby shifts its weight in the late rounds -- having seduced us with a gritty underdog tale -- and delivers a body blow.
01/07/05
Top CriticIt is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece.
01/07/05
Top CriticAs Maggie, Swank is a package of dynamite, a determined soul with too much to prove and too little time to do it in, to worry about defeat. Eastwood is so good in this movie, it almost feels like cheating.
01/06/05
Top CriticThe new picture takes its time, gives its actors room to breathe, and isn't afraid to strike a hokey note if it reveals something important. Real life, after all, is full of hokiness.
01/06/05
Top CriticMillion Dollar Baby is one for the books. It could have gone wrong in ways that would reduce it to a series of stereotypes. But it never does.
01/06/05
Top CriticSaying this movie is about boxing is akin to saying Citizen Kane is about a sled.
01/06/05
Top CriticThe picture uses the familiar boxing milieu -- the dingy gym, the late-night training sessions, the build-up to the Big Bout -- as background for a far more intimate and surprising love story between a surrogate father and a surrogate daughter.
01/06/05
Top CriticIt's a story about passion and dedication to a dream. It's a story about the need to believe in yourself and what you're doing. It's a story about lost opportunities and second chances.
01/06/05
Top CriticThe performances of the three leads are perfect, so we don't care that we don't know what lies right outside the Hit Pit.
12/27/04
Top CriticIt has the gloom and transcendence of an old man's wisdom.
12/27/04
Top CriticSolemn, inflated and dull.
12/18/04
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Billy Bob Thornton Weighs Pound for Pound 
Billy Bob Thornton will play a retired boxer whose life takes an unexpected turn in Ron Shelton's "Pound for Pound," an adaptation of the book by "Million Dollar Baby" author... More...
March 20, 2008:
Clint Eastwood Directing, Starring in Gran Torino
For a guy who's continually rumored to be done with acting, Clint Eastwood is doing a pretty good job of staying busy in front of the camera. More...
May 24, 2007:
Screenwriter Paul Haggis Enticed Back to "Bond 22"
If you liked "Casino Royale," (and who didn't?) you'll be happy to know that the screenwriting trio is now back in action for the 22nd Bond flick. More...
February 26, 2007:
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So Martin Scorsese finally has his long-overdue, much-deserved Oscar. But where does "The Departed" stack up in the annals of Academy history? More...
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