Two brothers try to escape their circumstances by travelling across the country for a no holds barred boxing match that becomes a fight for their lives.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two brothers try to escape their circumstances by travelling across the country for a no holds barred boxing match that becomes a fight for their lives.
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| IndieWireDavid EhrlichIn a country that insists everyone gets a title shot when most of them aren’t even allowed in the ring, Winkler rope-a-dopes us into a strange and rewarding story about three people who dare to punch above their weight class no matter what kind of beating they have to take for that temerity. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshThis dire and dreamy road movie is impressive work from director and co-writer Winkler (he co-wrote with Theodore Bressman and David Branson Smith). |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyWinkler, and featuring three very strong central performances and eye-catching poetic visuals, Jungleland is more of a mood-piece than anything else, and on that level it works beautifully. The mood is strange, sad, and hypnotic. |
| The Associated PressMark KennedyThis very American fable has been blessed with three remarkable performances. |
| The A.V. ClubCarlos AguilarEarnest fraternal affection is the main attraction in Jungleland, director Max Winkler’s moody road-trip movie by way of a bare-knuckle boxing drama. |
| The PlaylistJason BaileyA confidently crafted, well-acted three-hander ... But some viewers will find the hamster-wheel nature of “Jungleland” monotonous, and it’s hard to blame them. |
| Screen DailyWendy IdeStrong performances across the board and a propulsive sense of mounting desperation makes for a compelling piece of storytelling. |
| The Observer (UK)Simran HansBrits Hunnam, O’Connell and Barden are strangely well cast as its all-American grifters. (Hunnam in particular gives a finely tuned performance as a washed-up smooth talker who still knows how to flirt.) |
| ObserverRex ReedThe only reason to waste money and risk COVID exposure in any theater showing Jungleland is the privilege of seeing Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell, two of the best and most charismatic actors in films today, struggle to turn a turgid, cliché-riddled bore about the underground game of bare-knuckle fighting into something better than it could ever be. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenDirector Max Winkler truly seems to believe that he’s cutting to the heart of the boulevard of broken dreams. |
