Strongman (2011)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
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Stanless Steel-"The Strongest Man in the World at Bending Steel and Metal"-is the only man alive capable of bending a U.S. penny with his fingers. But the world around Stan-his aging parents, his alcoholic brother, his beautiful but timid announcer-girlfriend, his show-biz agents and strength rivals, and even Stan himself-is not so malleable. As the pressure mounts, what starts as a unique portrait of a loveable outsider soon becomes a deeply universal, funny, and poignant story about trying to
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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (0)
One cannot help but think of Fellini's Zampano and Gelsomina.
Top CriticStrongman is a tantalizing example of the kind of documentary I find engrossing: A film about an unusual person that invites us into the mystery of a human life.
An outsider tale of unforced rawness and lilting poignancy.
A warts-and-all documentary from first-time director Zachary Levy that moves in close and stays there.
Without being intrusive, Levy chronicles these lives like a trusted family member, and Strongman allows a privileged and affectionate glimpse of a truly American dreamer.
By the end, you don't entirely understand either of these people, but you come to understand why they need each other.
Fascinating, funny and intimate portrait of Stanless Steel, who likes to lift and bend things.
Strongman's unvarnished approach complements its salt of the earth subject.
Though the execution is nearly flawless, the film is difficult to sit through in its entirety.
Thoroughly fascinating, heartfelt and unflinchingly candid.
Though Levy's film feels shapeless at times, what it loses in structure, it gains in handheld intimacy, letting viewers get to know the mercurial but fundamentally sweet Pleskun.
Sad power rises from this doc about a guy who can bend pennies and elevate 10,000-pound trucks.
... [W]e're never sure how to take Stanless Steel. Is this guy irrepressibly optimistic, or just willfully self-deluded?
Zachary Levy's documentary is an original portrait of a distinctive soul who can lift trucks off the ground but cannot get himself out of a rut.
Ten years in the making, Zachary Levy's film is a stark and arresting study of a simple man trying to do good with what he's got.
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