| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"A rah-rah movie that works." more... |
B |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"McConaughey wins you over..." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves |
"Surprisingly restrained and undeniably entertaining..." more... |
B |
E! Online
Dezhda Mountz |
"This is the kind of movie that's supposed to make you cry like a baby, but it rings hollow." more... |
C |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"The film keeps insisting that we mourn for a team we didn't know..." more... |
C+ |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"...a great film for the school's alumni but a decent film for everyone else..." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...a compendium of sports cliches..." more... |
D |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"This isn't football - it's cornball." more... |
C |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"...the kind of crassly formulaic movie in which everything hinges on a single play in the final seconds of a big football game." more... |
D |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"We Are Marshall is precisely what one expects from a true sports story: it's uplifting and inspiring." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...Matthew McConaughey hams it to the hilt..." more... |
D |
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub |
"...a bit of a shame, because the subject matter could have been something special in the hands of stronger filmmakers." more... |
C- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"The movie goes through the usual paces with a certain panache and a handful of interesting performances..." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...far too formulaic..." more... |
C- |
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