| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Townsend |
"...full of familiar moves..." more... |
B- |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...a gritty inner-city epic that's from-the-heart but unoriginal." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...follows long-established genre patterns..." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith |
"...a frequently intoxicating movie about sports and a valuable lesson about the true object of athletic pursuit: character." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"Not a bad shot." more... |
B |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"When Carter works, it's because of Jackson." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"Thanks to a robust Samuel L. Jackson performance, this by-the-book inspirational sports drama has still got game." more... |
B |
New York Post
Debra Birnbaum |
"You'll think you've seen this one before -- and aside from Samuel L. Jackson's noble efforts to humanize the committed coach, there's little to suggest you haven't." more... |
C+ |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...both a rousing, by-the-book sports story...and a critique of the place of sports in American culture." more... |
B+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"... the experience seems manufactured and scripted in a paint-by-numbers fashion..." more... |
C+ |
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer |
"...a lively but standard-issue sports movie." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"While the movie may border on teen exploitation in many scenes, its heart and values are mostly in the right place..." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"...despite the story's provocative hook, the execution is so slack that we come away feeling we've seen this yarn too many times before." more... |
C+ |
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