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Cobb

1994

Ron Shelton

Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy ...

5.4

352

Drama

	Media	Author	Review
		Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"Jones lets it all loose here. It's the performance of a lifetime: full of menace and venom, eloquence and fire, rot and pathos, crackling rawness and realism"
		Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"The wisdom of 'Cobb' is that writer-director Ron Shelton knows that the close study of a single day can decode a human life"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"'Cobb' is a brilliant film. And with it, Ron Shelton elevates himself to the top shelf of American filmmakers"
		Jay Carr Boston Globe	"Cobb is seething and bleak and unsparing, with a blast-furnace performance by Jones, and there isn't a placating moment in it"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Confronted by Cobb's volcanic personality, the film is completely nonplussed, unable to decide if it should be amused, piteous, reluctantly admiring or just plain disgusted."
		Kim Newman Empire	"The film never sentimentalises the old swine as it explores the nature of his genius. Terrific ballplayer, miserable human being. Unworthy subject, great movie. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Desmond Ryan Philadelphia Inquirer	"Cobb is an ironic and telling look at the machinery of myth-making and the chasm that can exist between image and reality"

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