By Andrew Sarris 6/13/05 12:00am

Crowe Fights the Good Fight In Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man

Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, from a screenplay by Cliff Hollings-worth and Akiva Goldsman, struck me as just an O.K. vintage fight movie. I say “just O.K.” in opposition to the gushing superlatives lavished on it by many early reviewers.

Like most movies in the boxing genre, the ring action in Cinderella Man is more spectacularly Read More

By Rex Reed 6/06/05 12:00am

Beautiful Minds: Ron, Russ, Akiva

On June 13, 1935, at Madison Square Garden, a miracle happened. On that dreary but fateful day in the heart of the Great Depression, a poverty-stricken Irish dockworker from North Bergen, N.J., made sports history. In the kind of heroic display of indomitable courage that breaks the rules, beats the odds and makes great motion Read More