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100A riveting and unexpectedly inspiring essay on the peace that comes from shared physical and mental concentration.
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100Indeed, you leave the film feeling like Wiseman has given you a glimpse of one of those ephemeral ports in a storm to which all of us retreat at times.
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91He is the least intrusive of great directors, and Boxing Gym, which is about a gym in Austin, Texas, is so offhandedly observant that, for a while, you may wonder if much of anything is really going on.
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90This one is both demanding and extremely rewarding, because it's really a meditation on violence.
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90Pugilists and philosophers of all kinds converge in Frederick Wiseman's mesmerizing documentary Boxing Gym.
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90Boxing Gym is a companion piece of sorts to "La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet," Wiseman's previous doc that played Film Forum last fall. It's not simply that boxing and ballet are understood as kindred activities. Boxing Gym is itself a dance movie-which is to say, a highly formalized exercise in choreographed activity.
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88A documentary that is equal parts sweet science, brutal art and masterful filmmaking.
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88Wiseman has made several films about both disability and dance, but this new one might be his most hypnotic, rhythmically assembled observation of corporeal expression.
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83Viewers' interest in Boxing Gym will likely wax and wane, depending on their interest in martial arts.