The Mighty Macs

This film tells the story of rookie basketball coach and future Hall of Famer Cathy Rush who led the women of Immaculata College to three consecutive national championships from 1972 to 1974.

"...So few are the inspirational sports movies for girls that this formulaic drama about an..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Against the Ropes

Like a lot of sports movies, this biopic about boxing promoter Jackie Kallen is better than it has to be but not as good as it ought to be.

"...Joe Cortese and Kerry Washington. Like a lot of sports movies, this biopic about boxing promoter Jackie Kallen is..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Play it to the Bone

"...-- the modern king of smart, funny, and knowing sports movies, who has such titles as Bull Durham, Tin..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Air

The good guys win in this charming origin story for the Air Jordan

"...Out from being on my list of all-time favorite sports movies...."

March 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Blind Side

John Lee Hancock, director of The Rookie, scores with another sports drama, this time concerning a true football story.

"...just seen too many “and the crowd goes wild!” sports movies. There are a lot of built-in, probably undeserved..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Moneyball

Brad Pitt hits a home run with this film about the inner workings of baseball. It's a film that will appeal to sports fans and nonfans alike.

"...well as to fans of baseball and the many movies made about it. Moneyball also veers from the inspirational..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Soderbergh’s Netflix Basketball Film High Flying Bird Shoots, Mostly Scores

But just because you can shoot on a phone doesn’t mean you should

"...an NBA lockout, isn’t about the stock tropes most sports movies traffic in – the over-familiar, dewy-eyed “for the..."

Feb. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Doubt That the Stars Are Fire

"...tragedy, which would seem, in the case of Shakespeare movies, to be the lighter load, as I don’t know..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Coach's Corner

To hell with the critics! Remember the Titans is a great sports movie -- the best since Rocky.

"...The genre of film known as the sports movie is not a distinguished one. So for me..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Air

Feel-good history of the Air Jordan centers on the shoe, not the man

"...Out from being on my list of all-time favorite sports movies. I have a sneaking suspicion that Air, the..."

April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Are We Done Yet?

Who could have foreseen that Ice Cube's path Straight Outta Compton would lead to family-friendly movies about the complications of life in the suburbs?

"...Boyz N the Hood – would now be making movies about family life in the suburbs and the pressures..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Phantom of the Open

Mark Rylance raises this fantastical golfing biopic above par

"...formula just as well-trod as the Western or slasher, sports movies are not often given the same genre considerations..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Triumph

High school wrestling drama is admirable for giving athletes with disabilities a platform

"...for a certain era of high school flicks and sports movies that are long bygone. The story is replete..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Celtic Pride

"...the word “pride” means. The movie is a throwaway sports comedy, ripe for the current NBA playoff season but..."

April 26, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kazaam

"...picture – the latest in a growing line of movies from that studio in which popular sports figures have..."

July 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miracle

The Cold war provides the background for this Olympics ice hockey miracle starring Kurt Russell.

"...age of niche-marketed "nag or drag" family fare. The sports action is cleanly staged and filmed – there’s even..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

First Quarter

Bradley Jackson and Andrew Disney kick off a festival run of their new comedy about the importance of intramurals

"..."It's always the same thing with sports movies," Jackson explains, laying out the plot points on..."

April 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Big Fan

In this dark new film from the screenwriter of The Wrestler, a New York Giants fan and regular caller to a sports radio talk show snatches rededication from the jaws of disillusionment.

"...also wrote and set amid the fringes of another sports arena: the fans of sports talk radio. Were it..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jerry Maguire

"...as usual.” At the outset of the story, top-of-his-game sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) suffers a pang of conscience..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bedtime Stories

Adam Sandler has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. Maybe he should stop making movies already and just rent himself out for kids’ parties.

"...of being an adult and just started making kids movies. In his latest, Bedtime Stories, co-written by Matt Lopez..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

We Are Marshall

There are football movies, and then there’s this 800-pound gorilla of a gridiron weepie, which should be penalized for roughing the viewer.

"...Mara, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and January Jones. There are football movies, and then there’s this 800-pound gorilla of a gridiron..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

My All American

Longhorn legend Freddie Steinmark gets his due in this sports drama

"...Pizzo already has to his credit an all-time great sports movie, 1986’s enduring Hoosiers. (He also wrote 1993’s Rudy,..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Eddie the Eagle

The inspirational story of Great Britain's Olympics underdog

"...can-do optimism is the kind of trait they make movies about (witness Cool Runnings, the film about the quixotic..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

23 Blast

Actor Dylan Baker debuts as a director with this inspirational film about a blind, young football player.

"...continued to play, 23 Blast is a well-acted inspirational sports drama that never quite rises above the treacly mire..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Undefeated

This Oscar-winner for Best Documentary tells a rousing and heartwarming tale of a West Memphis high school football team overcoming the odds.

"...of the things we love to see in our movies that it’s little wonder Undefeated won the Oscar for..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Joyful Noise

Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton duke it out in the homespun world of gospel-music competition.

"...Even though it sports a queen and a dolly, this come-from-behind, gospel-music competition..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Never Back Down

Never Back Down is like The Karate Kid meets Fight Club by way of Abercrombie & Fitch.

"...martial arts flick Never Back Down borrows from other movies almost shamelessly – it's The Karate Kid meets Fight..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Last Holiday

After being diagnosed with an incurable brain disease, a woman (who is played delightfully by Queen Latifah) discovers her moxie.

"...tell you – with its fantasy shopping sequences and sports slapstick and grand-hotel hijinks (although I was delighted by..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Paparazzi

A vicious revenge fantasy produced by Mel Gibson, the Passionate filmmaker who last partnered with that turn-the-other-cheek fellow.

"...miscalculated. Although the movie’s premise is conceptually intriguing, Paparazzi sports no likable figures. Each character is more distasteful than..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

"...function on terms more closely associated with vibrators than movies. Add to this the adolescent male focus on mud-wrestling..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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