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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelA funny, gentle and honestly sentimental movie that is easily one of the best of the year in any category, and very possibly the best movie about sport ever made in this country.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThat the males play baseball and that sport is their work is what makes this the ultimate baseball movie; never before has a movie considered the game from the inside out.
- A simply marvelous cinematic experience.
- 75Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderA genuinely compelling film about athletics—and there haven't been many—based on a story by Mark Harris and directed by John Hancock. The material is trite, but Hancock's slow-motion treatment of the experience of athletic performance is adroit and graceful.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineOne of the best baseball movies ever.
- If director John Hancock's work is sometimes atmospherically colorless, he pulls scenes together that seem to be going nowhere and acquits himself most notably with the performers.
- 70Time OutTime OutThough the baseball scenes themselves are secondary and none too convincing, De Niro nails the sentimental tearjerker stuff.
- 40The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelThis baseball weeper was very clumsily directed by John Hancock; everything stops dead for the dialogue scenes.