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  Review by karen h. ★★½ 6

  i think about the fact that dolph lundgren has a master's degree in chemical engineering constantly

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 4

  Sacrifices almost all of Coogler's emotional intelligence and nuance for, well, a pretty generic ROCKY sequel with Adonis' arc one of masculine pride restored. In fact it's the Dragos who have the more succinct and novel underdog story (honestly I was sort of rooting for them, and anyway it's great to see Dolph in a dramatic role, no matter how small). The performances are so convincing that it's still relatively effective by the end but the last thing this movie should've been is merely acceptable.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 1

  The fight scenes got the crowd of middle schoolers in my theater to actually pay attention, cheer, gasp, and applaud, so I'd say the movie is pretty effective.

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 3

  Creed 3: Adonis fights Ksi and the Paul brothers

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½ 2

  Shoulda called it CRIED II cause that’s what I did at the end thank you try the veal tip your waitstaff.

  Full review at ScreenCrush.

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  Review by TJ ★★★★ 3

  Tessa Thompson wears a blazer and a beret to a boxing match and it's the biggest flex of BDE I've ever witnessed.

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  Review by Houston Coley ★★★★ 4

  “What’s a light if it doesn’t even light?”

  It’s not as directionally brilliant as the first film, but this is still a very worthy and natural continuation, and everything about it feels earned. My theater totally loved it - there was cheering all throughout the last act. As has been the case with most Rocky movies, the boxing is just a backdrop to the human drama and relationships, and Tessa Thompson, Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone just kill it every time. Uh, kill it in a good way. There’s probably a little too much down-time in the middle of the film where Adonis’s character is constantly casting self-pity and doubt, but it’s acted so well that it’s hard to…

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  Review by nyloraced ✨ ★★★★ 1

  To preface this, the first installment of Creed was an absolutely beautiful film that blew me away in all regards. It cemented Ryan Coogler as one of my favorite up and coming directors that wasn't just a one hit wonder with Fruitvale Station. It also got me excited to see anything else Michael B Jordan would star in in the future. It had so much heart, intensity, atmosphere, and anything else positive about it. It was easily one of the best movies of 2015.

  So the sequel had a lot to live up to. And without Coogler directing, I was pretty nervous.

  Luckily, it did pretty well. I do think it wasn't as strong of a film as its predecessor.…

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  Review by Rafael Jovine ★★★★ 3

  “Punch him in the balls and end with this!!” – my mom

  Things that seem to happen when you revisit these films after a long period. Although the first part was quite good, the plot and fight sequences in this sequel are far more effective. My mom and I were on the tip of our chairs, leaping with excitement and feeling every blow.

  Also, the emotional stakes were higher here, with stronger emotional moments. Although everything with the new kid and the issue with him could have had a greater impact, in the end it simply feels like an inconvenience, so much buildup and then nothing happens and everyone quickly forgets, wrapping that in such an anti-climatic way. But everything…

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  Review by Jak-Luke Sharp ★★★★★ 13

  MGM + Warner Bros. Cinema
  2.39:1
  Color 
  Codex
  12A

  ”He's just a man be more a man than him”

  Steven Caple Jr’s Creed II is nothing short of the equivalent of gold dust. It is, in essence, a perfect sequel. Honouring that of the house that built it with compelling charges in echoes of emotional contusion while building its own path with its exceptional and exquisite tools at hand I.e the truly outstanding character acrs and resulting performances from Thompson, Jordan and the delightfully stoic animosity of Lundgren that bleed poignant heart and colossal atmosphere in a highly successful implication in the ideals of fate and destiny wrapped in a prism of echoed time.

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  FULL REVIEW AT NERDLY UK
  

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★½

  Adonis Creed and his mentor Rocky Balboa face their toughest obstacle yet, when the son of the man who killed Creed's father Apollo challenges Adonis for the title.

  "I wanna rewrite history ... Don't pretend this is about your father!"

  'Rocky 4' was the perfect blend of a cheesy but awesome sports montage/boxing flick. It was my first Rocky movie and remains my favorite in the series, due in large part to my fascination with Soviet/Cold War history. Now 33 years later I was blown away when I found out they would be following up the awesome revival of the Rocky franchise 'Creed', with a sequel that ties perfectly into the story line of Apollo Creed's legacy.

  While Creed 2…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★ 1

  caple jr. does a perfectly solid job of cribbing the visual style and maintaining these performances but cooglar's insightful reclaiming of franchise iconography, personal identity and place (very little philly here for some reason) is largely replaced by some pretty damn typical drama. both films deal heavily in broad strokes of course but there's a lot less attention to character psychology and detail here in favor of hitting the script beats that really makes you realize how important someone carving their own voice and identity into a work like this is. the little hints we get about the dragos relationship of pressure, humiliation and abandonment is the closest this gets to emotional complexity, spent most of the finale dreaming about that movie instead.