
Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.... (Full plot summary below)
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Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.
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| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumA riveting and unexpectedly inspiring essay on the peace that comes from shared physical and mental concentration. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichIndeed, you leave the film feeling like Wiseman has given you a glimpse of one of those ephemeral ports in a storm to which all of us retreat at times. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIn a year filled with angry, sociopolitical documentaries, it's my favorite. |
| New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottA documentary that is equal parts sweet science, brutal art and masterful filmmaking. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereThe film, which as usual eschews voice-overs and soundtrack music, is a chorus of labored breathing, an unblinking, at times beautiful recording of real-life, |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldFor legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman to follow La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet with a film set in a down-market Texas boxing gym seems unlikely -- until you see Boxing Gym, and how it and its subjects dance. |
| Boston PhoenixTom MeekWiseman records the rituals of repetition (speed bag and footwork) in poetic long shots that often have two pugilists side by side, each unaware of the other. The cadence is both primal and hypnotic. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerHe is the least intrusive of great directors, and Boxing Gym, which is about a gym in Austin, Texas, is so offhandedly observant that, for a while, you may wonder if much of anything is really going on. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanBoxing Gym is a companion piece of sorts to "La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet," Wiseman's previous doc that played Film Forum last fall. It's not simply that boxing and ballet are understood as kindred activities. Boxing Gym is itself a dance movie-which is to say, a highly formalized exercise in choreographed activity. |
| Show Business WeeklyEthan AlterThank goodness we still have Frederick Wiseman around to show us how old-school cinema verite is done. |