Cuba Gooding Jr. continues his sad descent from Oscar-winning actor (Jerry Maguire) to walking punch line with this absurd drama...

| Jul 13, 2022

Show off and almost absurd scenes result in a lazy movie. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 15, 2020

The movie is bad, y'all. Like real bad. But, I still find a number of reasons to recommend it.

| Aug 3, 2018

Aaron Spelling may be slapping his forehead, but a few cemetary plots over, 1950's melodrama king Douglas Sirk is smiling.

| Original Score: C | Feb 1, 2009

The raw materials for a gutsy, gritty, fearless, fascinating thriller are here, but they amount to some intriguing individual parts and not a satisfying, cohesive whole.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2007

This cat-and-mouse caper's Swiss cheese plotline is riddled with too many holes to consider this flick as much more than a snuff film.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Despite assembling a talented cast and crew, Daniels is stymied here by a script that takes itself far too seriously.

| Mar 1, 2007

That most wonderful of films, the kind that works on every level, but can't be easily pigeonholed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Mirren and Gooding are interesting -- and sexy -- to watch together. Once she leaves the film, the picture loses a bit of its uniqueness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 30, 2006

The script can't quite get a grasp on character depth, yet it also can't quite deliver the cheap thrills such a trashy tale might otherwise provide.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2006

"Shadowboxer" is supposed to be concerned with how parents' lifestyles can be passed down to their children, but that is too simplistic here. The film, instead, is more a showcase of naked bodies, gory scenarios and over-the-top performances.

| Sep 2, 2006

Thumbs down to a movie of such vile and violent temper.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 25, 2006

It's all so cliched in terms of personalities and full of such unbelievable situations that it's often downright laughable. And not in a good way.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 25, 2006

Gosh, it's almost too bad/good to be true.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2006

There's no glee here, just a handful of glum characters stuck in an unending cycle of sex, violence, and heavy-handed preaching.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 19, 2006

The one thing I'll say about Shadowboxer is that it's never boring. Of course, I could also say that about stepping on crushed glass.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2006

Much of the movie is just too unintentionally goofy to take at face value

Full Review | Aug 6, 2006

The title [is] an apt metaphor for the movie, which ultimately bobs and weaves a lot but ends up all empty air.

| Original Score: D | Aug 5, 2006

Daniels know his way around making the viewer uncomfortable, but there's a fine line between genuine, pants-tickling eroticism and 'I can't believe I'm watching this surrounded by strangers' soft-core porn.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 4, 2006

The casting seems to be an attempt to manufacture interesting characters, instead of depending on the script to do that.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 4, 2006