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The New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
“The Hammer has dry wit and unforced working-class swagger, and hits
some surprising emotional notes… in classic sports-movie tradition,
the real love story is in the central male friendship… The Hammer
has Jerry slowly forge a friendship with [Robert] based on
competitive drive and grudging mutual respect, then builds it to a
payoff that’s as unexpected as it is moving.â€
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The Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
“The Hammer feels genuinely tossed off… It gets to elusive feelings
about failure and success, hope and mortality (and reveals a quietly
subversive attitude toward the boxing-movie genre). None of it would
work without a strong central performance, and Mr. Carolla provides
one; but here, too, his character subverts conventional notions of
strength. Jerry is self-ironic to a fault, and wonderfully laconic…
He’s a lost soul who finally finds himself without making a fuss
about it.â€
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The New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
“Every comedian thinks they have an “Annie Hall†in them, an
early-Woody Allen-ish mix of common-guy persona and witty
one-liners… but Adam Carolla found the recipe that works for him: He
added a dash of Walter Watthau. And – surprise – Carolla’s grumbly,
monotoned, stoop-shouldered pessimism in “The Hammer†is actually
funny… [Adam Carolla and Heather Juergensen] feel like real people,
not romantic-comedy cutouts. Carolla proves that not trying too hard
can be its own reward.â€
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Village Voice
Matt Singer
“A surprisingly charming Adam Carolla anchors this likable comedy
from the director and producer-star of Kissing Jessica Stein,
Charles Herman-Wurmfeld and Heather Juergensen. Carolla plays Jerry
Ferro, an out-of-work carpenter who rediscovers his talents as a
boxer. The schlubby former host of The Man Show maintains a breezy
on-screen persona that belies the hard work it surely took to become
such a convincing pugilist.â€
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