Ain't It Cool News Loves THE WRESTLER!

Find out what Moriarty from Ain't It Cool News had to say about Darren Aronofsky's THE WRESTLER after screening it at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles!

Read on for snippets from his review, or read his post in its entirety here.

•  "Darren Aronofsky’s best movie. Easily."

• "Mickey Rourke is awesome."

• "The film earns every single bit of emotion that it asks you to feel because it never pushes for it."

• "I think it’s an amazing, human piece of work, and it’s a reminder that the name everyone threw around critically during the early days of Rourke’s career was 'Brando,' and with this film, I think he’s earned that comparison in the most complete and complimentary way ever."
  

• "This is the sort of performance that ON THE WATERFRONT and STREETCAR promised to audiences when they exploded onto the screen in the ‘50s. This is the sort of honest portrayal of the uncommon soul of the most common of men that I can think of in a while, and I think it takes someone like Rourke to make it work."
  

• "I love everything about the film. I love the choice to use a lot of ‘80s hair metal on the soundtrack... I love Tomei’s work as a woman who tells herself whatever she needs to in order to face her job every night. I love the matter-of-fact way some of the film’s biggest emotional moments unfold... And I love the ending. The whole thing, right down to the absolute right last shot."
  

• "I don’t think it’s an overstatement to call it a great movie, and one I think will stand as a very special entry in the filmographies of all involved."