Wrestler

Access Hollywood scored the strangest news of the day with the announcement that Mickey Rourke, fresh from his Oscar nomination in Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler", is set to get in the ring for real at the WWE's "Wrestlemania 25" on April 5th.

Mickey Rourke Climbs Into The Ring For WWE’s ‘Wrestlemania’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009

The Wrestler is better than the four Oscar nominees I have seen this year, but it has its faults, primarily the first scene and the last scene with the daughter, which felt too formulaic and forced.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wrestler 2009

The Wrestler is also an existential movie, and the story arc is quite similar to The Cockfighter, just a little more downbeat.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wrestler 2009

That The Wrestler is a thoughtful probing of working class culture and sacrifice and as such bears too many ponderous marks of a single directors consciousness.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wrestler and Sports Movie Clichés 2009

The Wrestler is directed by indie filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain previously, with a script written by Robert D. Siegel, of only The Onion Movie previously.

New Photos of Mickey Rourke in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler « FirstShowing.net 2008

May want to mention that the awards that The Wrestler is 1 of 5 films in the best feature category is the IFP's Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards blog comments powered by Disqus

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The Wrestler is being released in limited theaters on December 17th 2008.

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The Wrestler is pretty slow and boring if you ask me, despite Rourke’s good performance.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wrestler 2009

This should come as no surprise to anyone who’s read anything written about movies recently, but The Wrestler is a very good film and you should go see it.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wrestler 2009

They’re both DBs but as both Ebert and MY say The Wrestler is good, I guess that can be taken to the bank.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wrestler 2009