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Friday Night Lights (2004)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "If you're not a football fan, you'll be surprised -- and thrilled -- by how completely this film engages you." more... A- Boston Globe "...bears something you rarely experience in a football movie. Friday Night Lights has a soul." more... B   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The movie demonstrates the power of sports to involve us; we don't live in Odessa and are watching a game played 16 years ago, and we get all wound up." more... A- Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt "There isn't a bad performance here..." more... A   E! Online "..the movie jukes its way around the usual sports-film clichés. Score!" more... A- filmcritic.com David Levine "Director Peter Berg scores touchdowns for his ability to accurately capture the intensity and fervor of the gridiron." more... A- Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Gets the atmosphere and vibe of sports craziness perfectly but glosses over the specifics." more... B   New York Post Lou Lumenick "High school football is a religion in some parts of the country, and Friday Night Lights...is for the most part content to preach to the converted." more... B- New York Times A.O. Scott "...uplifting and troubling, partly because it is more honest than most sports movies about the high cost and short life span of high school football glory." more... A- ReelViews James Berardinelli "...an above average effort that provides a solid emotional punch." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...takes you so deep into the action, you can hear the bones crunch." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "People who like sports movies will love Friday Night Lights, but so will people who don't like sports movies and would never think of seeing a high school football game." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "... throws out the typical sports-movie playbook." more... B   USA Today Mike Clark "One of the best football movies ever..." more... A- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)