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Boxing Gym
Directed by
Frederick Wiseman
Not Rated
2010
1h 31m
Documentary
7.0
95%
75%
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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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Boxing Gym Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Wiseman captures these staccato polyrhythms both visually and sonically. There's not a lot of hitting here; he clearly delights in the sport's balletic beauty.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Graceful and quietly inspiring.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Even with no traditional narrative, there are wonderful discoveries to be made in Wiseman's film, which is a nice complement to the experienced director's ballet-themed last feature, "La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet."
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Don't go to Boxing Gym expecting pugilistic melodrama about long-shot underdogs. There's not an ounce of fat or cliché in Frederick Wiseman's new documentary.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The soundscape, too, is endlessly fascinating, a layer cake of squeaks, grunts, gasps, and rattling chains that, combined, catches a rhythm that sounds an awful lot like song.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
For 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 Globe
Wesley Morris
Frederick Wiseman must drive certain nonfiction filmmakers crazy. He makes it look too easy.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Wiseman films it all without comment, letting the rhythm of the place tell the story.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
We see multiple iterations of all manner of drills, and one of the pleasures of this film is that it understands that the more you look at something, the more mysterious and beautiful it becomes.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a boxing movie minus all the bull that usually goes with it.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
If it's possible to make a completely gentle movie about boxing, Frederick Wiseman has done just that.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Some documentaries have a way of sneaking into your brain and becoming reference points for larger subjects. Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym is one of them.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Pugilists and philosophers of all kinds converge in Frederick Wiseman's mesmerizing documentary.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Wiseman's intimate-but-unrevealing approach suits the culture he's observing.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
There's no disputing the cumulative authority of Wiseman's ongoing Human Comedy or ignoring the influence that his epic observational style has had on fiction filmmakers.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Wiseman, credited not only as director but as producer, editor and sound guy, makes the gym's rhythm of motion and chatter into his chief subject - a ballet of sweat.
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
The film captures the energy, the stresses and the tension of people striking punching bags and each other but without narration, it all feels a bit random and uninteresting.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
A privileged peek into a little pocket of something close to a functioning democratic system.
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