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  Review by karen h. ★★½ 7

  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 ★★★ 5

  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 7

  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 Bryan Espitia ★★★★ 2

  You know the training montage is gonna be good when they go to the desert to swing sledgehammers into the sand and use old tires as punching bags

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  Review by alor ★★★½

  Holy shit the fight between Adonis and Viktor was truly epic

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  Review by adambolt ★★★

  Mildly disappointed we didn't get to see Drago and Rocky have a rematch, I wanted to see two old men beating the shit out of each other very slowly

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  Review by CinemaJoe ★★★½ 1

  A very noticeable step down from Creed, but still a lot of fun. I’ve always thought that exploring the aftermath of Rocky IV through Drago’s perspective would have made for an excellent movie, which is why I think the best parts of Creed II are those exact moments. His dynamic with his son, his wife, and his country is infinitely more interesting than almost anything else in this movie.

  Which is why I think the final fight works so insanely well— it’s all those components crashing together at the end, creating a surprisingly moving finale to the Drago story.

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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 (god dolph), spent most of the finale dreaming about that movie instead.

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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…