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Knuckle
Directed by
Ian Palmer
R
2011
1h 37m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
6.8
93%
67%
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An epic 12-year journey into the brutal and secretive world of Irish Traveler bare-knuckle fighting. This film follows a history of violent feuding between rival clans.
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Cast of Knuckle
Ian Palmer
Narrator (voice)
James Quinn McDonagh
Himself
Michael Quinn McDonagh
Himself
Paddy Quinn McDonagh
Himself
Joe Joyce
himself
Paul Joyce
himself
Knuckle Ratings & Reviews
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Palmer's film is brutally compelling to look at, as the lads get down to face-rearranging, but it also carries a lot of tragic historical freight.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
While it's frustrating that Mr. Palmer doesn't dig deep into the complexities of the fights, one of the movie's strengths is the honesty with which he confesses his doubts about them.
indieWire
Eric Kohn
A deeply unsettling experience.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Though you will wish for more polish and insight, its unruly action is hard to resist.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
While the film becomes slightly redundant, the anger and strife its characters cannot overcome is awful, poetic and, frankly, astonishing.
MSN Movies
James Rocchi
Knuckle is a curiously riveting work.
AV Club
Alison Willmore
Knuckle is a documentary about feuding families of Irish Travelers who settle their grudges with bare-knuckle boxing matches, so it's bound to be inherently fascinating, regardless of how well it's assembled.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
As Palmer rightly shows, there's plenty of heart and soul (rough-and-tumble though it may be) beneath the acres of scar tissue on display here.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A documentary of bareknuckle fights among feuding Irish Traveller clans can't give the participants' self-perpetuating, dead-end rivalry the scope of tragedy.
NPR
Scott Tobias
Knuckle largely skirts exploitation, simply by virtue of showing this conflict perpetuate itself over so many years. Clans like the Quinn McDonaghs and the Joyces seem destined to fight for generations after they've forgotten their rationale.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Palmer's grainy, handheld camerawork won't win any aesthetic prizes, but it's in tune with his subject.
Variety
Justin Chang
As a bruising study in masculine temperament and the ways in which cycles of violence can be controlled and mediated -- yet also perpetuated and inflamed -- in a public arena, pic is unavoidably compelling stuff.
Hollywood.com
Matt Patches
Ambiguity makes Knuckle a fascinating portrait, but a middling cinematic experience.
The Playlist
Todd Gilchrist
Knuckle is an understated but powerful look at a world people know little about, in a way they've never seen before.
About.com
Jennifer Merin
A hard-hitting documentary in which the men of rival Irish traveler clans periodically beat each other to a pulp to settle a family feud that began for a reason that nobody remembers. Bloody amazing!
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
It's a technically rough but personally moving look at family rivalry.
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
Shot over 12 years, Ian Palmer's extraordinary documentary tracks the long-running feud between the Joyces and the Quinn McDonaghs.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
The fighters hit hard, and so does the movie.
TV Guide
Jason Buchanan
A compelling and occasionally disturbing documentary shot over the course of 12 years and covering too many conflicts to count.
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