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starstarstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstar Tom Keogh - Film.com
starstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstar Steve Simels - TV Guide
starstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstar Gary Mairs - culturevulture.net
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
star Michael Dequina - The Reel Site
star Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post

A wonderfully entertaining, raunchy, hilarious and savage foray into the lives of a couple of beat-up middle-weight boxers who get a second chance

- Kevin Thomas

This sorry excuse for a movie (not to put too fine a point on it) sucked howling wind

- Michael O’Sullivan

Play It to the Bone

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Best friends and boxers Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson take a road trip to Las Vegas to fight each other in a match they hope will revive their careers. Lolita Davidovich, Tom Sizemore, Lucy Alexis Liu, Robert Wagner, Richard Masur, Willie Garson, Cylk Cozart, Jack Carter. Director: Ron Shelton (1999, R)

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