Cobb

  • 1994


MOVIE IS important american resonant sugary inevitable
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64 % Fresh
$ 1 Million
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Positive Reviews 17
Negative reviews 4
Average Rating 3.4/5
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2.5
Its not enough, and you end up feeling despite Jones dead on performance like youve been cheated. It looks good. It feels right. It gets the job done. .. Austin Chronicle
2.5
Oliver Cromwell once urged a painter to make an honest portrait, warts and everything, and Cobb makes its hero look like all warts, with a batting ave .. Rogerebert
4.0
Sheltons strong, stinging film one of the years best wants to get at something ingrained in the American character: the irrational desire to make sain .. Rolling Stone
2.0
Be this as it may, the biopic genre keeps plugging away no matter how fashions change over the years. Cs Monitor
3.0
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1.5
Over and over, the movie presents us with the inevitable litany of Cobbs amazing batting records. Ew
4.0
Sheltons pithy and resonant dialogue gives it a freshness all of its own. Empire
1.0
Toward the end of Cobb, the hero suddenly starts coughing up blood.Death, which until now has been a second baseman to be charged, spiked and upended, .. Time
3.0
If youre looking for a sugary sweet baseball hero story, this aint it; but it is an entertaining story about a great ex player who could make Albert B .. Bullz-Eye
3.8
You need look no further than the O.J. Simpson story to see this.So what defines greatness ReelViews
3.8
The biggest surprise in Cobb is how little it has to do with baseball.This is truly a film about a man, not a sport. Deseret News
3.1
The few flirtations with farce in this mostly darkly hued film only underscore its inability to find the right tone for its subject. Movies Tv Guide
3.1
The movie never equals the performance, but still fascinating to watch. Three Movie Buffs
4.0
Theres a ghastly dark humor in the spectacle of Cobbs dont give a damn rages. News Week
2.0
Viewed simply as a player, Cobb was arguably the greatest who ever lived. La Times
5.0
Ty Cobbs story may not be the last word, but Ron Sheltons powerful film tells it brilliantly.Few movies, and few actors, have ever caught the dark sid .. Articles Chicago Tribune
4.4
Most biopics mistakenly try to take us from cradle to grave and end up skimming the surface. Articles Chicago Tribune
5.0
And yet the filmmaker doesnt seem to want us entirely to dismiss Cobbs ballpark exploits. Articles Orlando Sentinel
3.8
Stump is well played by affable Robert Wuhl, who has the unenviable responsibility of representing the one sane man in Tys crazy universe. Articles Baltimore Sun
4.0
The trek is hardly entertaining.A profoundly troubled soul seething with violence, Cobb mostly is depicted in old age, a year before his death in 1961 .. Articles Sun Sentinel
3.1
Unfortunately, the movie just makes Stump look like a self important jerk, possibly a bigger jerk than Cobb, and Wuhls affable, weightless performance .. Seattle Times
3.5
If life were just, then all athletes would be defined only by their numbers.Consider the following: Babe Ruth, 60; Wilt Chamberlain, 100; O.J. Simpson .. Spokes Man
3.5
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