But to skip Creed on that basis is a mistake, for the rest of its two + hours are so great, so tautly filmed and featuring such honest, intelligent performances that it becomes
a genuinely excellent movie that happens to be about boxing.
Not exact matches
There will always be cynicism about the Tinseltown attitude towards fictional disability (something that is traditionally admired as long as it comes as a package with genius), but this is a
genuinely excellent performance from Redmayne, and the
movie itself is far more complex and demanding than you might expect.
This is an
excellent disk of a
movie that counts among the two
genuinely landmark pics directed by Ridley Scott (the other being Blade Runner).
This year's batch of Oscar hopefuls have made some
genuinely excellent horror
movies.