A sometimes funny boxing screwball comedy.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 29, 2015

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

...Shelton's second-best idea for a boxing movie.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 28, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 30, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The hope that Shelton would bring fresh insight to the sweet science is unfulfilled on nearly every level.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

The movie seems strained, tired, and forced.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Play It to the Bone stumbles early and never really recovers.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Man, Ron Shelton sure loves sports, doesn't he?

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Dazed and confused.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Underwritten.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Play It to the Bone consists largely of a seemingly endless drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

| Jan 1, 2000

This boxing movie is one of [Alan's] best.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

OK for laughs but less OK for emotional investment with the characters, who feel more like comic constructs than the real-feeling guys.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000