It’s a film featuring some good performances, scattered chuckles, and pretty capable direction. But you can dress up the pig all you want and it’s still a pig.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Will likely appeal to an older audience who can really get behind the idea of two old timers stepping up and reliving past glories.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Feb 1, 2021

Stallone and De Niro together becomes a novelty that wears off prematurely.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Really? Did this actually look good on paper? Or was the money just so awesome that it was impossible to pass up?

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

Grudge Match pulls no punches. A trip down memory lane for many of us, a fun-filled often tongue-in-cheek nod to cinema legends, it wins every round. Ding, Ding!

| Jan 8, 2020

Muhammad Ali may have had the ability to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, but 2013's Grudge Match can do no more than stumble around like a cockroach that's taken a direct hit from a can of Raid.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 18, 2019

A lackluster gimmick, an instantly forgettable malaise cashing in on preceding run-of-the-mill sports folklore.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Equivalent to finding an old Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in the attic, gripping the dust-covered handles and rockin' 'n' sockin' for a whole two hours before re-boxing it up for good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2019

Too unfocused to be memorable but not so boring as to be considered a complete waste, Grudge Match is far from the essential sports flicks its actors have starred in, but it's watchable nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2019

I don't want to sound like some butthurt feminist here, but if a Mike Tyson cameo is the least misogynistic part of your movie, you have a problem.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2018

Grudge Match becomes less a celebration of the real and fictional characters from boxing past (La Motta was a real person) and more a critique of society's bloodlust.

| Nov 29, 2017

A botched high-concept premise, Grudge Match wallows in the sentimentality that seems to be an integral part of too many boxing movies.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 29, 2017

[The] emotional angle in the film allows Stallone to deliver some surprisingly effective emotional monologues.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 17, 2017

Somewhat formulaic, but a lot of fun regardless.

| Mar 7, 2017

A story that's so on-the-nose that it appears to be following some predetermined rubric of what constitutes success for a sports comeback flick.

| Original Score: C | Jun 21, 2016

"(Not only) is this sports comedy poorly timed, it has more than just a whiff of desperation, both on the part of its remaining cast and the filmmaker."

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2014

Grudge Match certainly has enough successful elements to be moderately entertaining, although it's hard not to wish it contained fewer distractions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2014

If you're from my generation, it's worth checking out for the nostalgia factor, even if much of the film will be lost on the younger generation.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 8, 2014

I do have to marvel at the way Stallone has always been able to make himself the underdog. This is a massive monster of a man who should by any account be the Goliath to any movie's David, yet he's always able to play vulnerable.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 7, 2014

Grudge Match is one of those ideas that works as a passing joke rather than an actual film, but the film's brazenness is admirable, and it is possible to have a good time with it. Just make sure your expectations are suitably lowered first.

| Feb 28, 2014