With Resurrecting the Champ the truth is quite simple. It's a knockout.

| Nov 13, 2019

Towering over the entire picture is Jackson, who takes a showy role and invests it with so much humanity that it's impossible not to feel deeply for the character every step of the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 29, 2019

a must see for the performances

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 20, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Nothing can wrench this movie from the grip of a saccharine, formulaic script full of plattitudes and divided allegiances.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 26, 2008

Even though the melodrama gets ratcheted up at the end, there were plenty of moments I found myself cheering for the Champ.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 3, 2008

a contender that doesn't quite take a championship belt.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 29, 2008

Resurrecting the Champ is a specialty of director Rod Lurie, a civics lecture disguised as a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 1, 2007

Success, adulation, temptation, disgrace, redemption -- it's all there, expressed mostly through the predictably non-expressive Hartnett.

| Oct 23, 2007

A two-star execution of a four-star goal, and is therefore worthy of a viewing.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 22, 2007

Slow in the father-son heart to heart parts, Champ brings it all back home in the end with a great story line and saving performances by Jackson, Alda and Hatcher

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 11, 2007

Like a championship fight, a movie is often reviewed in rounds. This being said, I think I'll go the safe route and call the film a draw.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2007

The script and director Rod Lurie just can't get the parts to meld.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 6, 2007

It's hard to have a genuine emotional response when the manipulative mechanics are all too strongly felt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 5, 2007

Lurie's film actually works better as a study of a reporter coping with ambition and ethics as opposed to a story about Kernan and Champ or Kernan and his son.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 2, 2007

...never becomes as compelling as it promises to be...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Everything is about winning respect versus earning it. This film earned mine. I'm glad I took a chance on it. By the look of my theater, not many others did.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2007

Reporters also refer to what they write as "my story."

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2007

This is a story that anyone should be able to relate to because we all fall short of perfection.

| Original Score: A | Aug 29, 2007