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When the Game Stands Tall
PG (SINGAPORE)
2014
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12
Negative reviews
26
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2.2
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2.8
Of course, the problem with this kind of modesty is that its difficult to get excited about it; its easier to appreciate what When The Games Stands Ta ..
Av Club
2.0
Unfortunately, When the Game Stands Tall is still written like every other high school sports drama youve ever seen, so the characters and stories it ..
We Got This Covered
1.5
The gridiron action is competently staged and viscerally sound designed, and the message is unimpeachable: That high school football isnt about winnin ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Its an impossible standard, maybe, but in 42 minutes, TVs Friday Night Lights delivered all star level emotional complexity and action.When the Game S ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
While hard hitting, they dont bask in overdone, glorifying slow motion.
Screen Daily
3.0
But for all its exciting sports scenes, the movie version falls flat as drama.
Vulture
2.5
But this sucker for scoreboard sentiment was left dry eyed this time.
Rogerebert
2.0
Instead, it trips over itself while trying to sell its product very hard as a faith based blockbuster.
Cinema Blend
2.0
But it may come with a silver lining.Only by not caring about victory can they be true champions.
Ny Daily News
2.5
This is no more than a popcorn flick that ticks off all the right boxes to satisfy as many as possible and thats okay.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
On the whole the result can be termed workmanlike rather than inspired.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
Its the latest of that peculiar sub genre of sports films, where filmmakers bend over backwards to make a perennial powerhouse football factory look l ..
Rogers Movie Nation
1.8
The football melodrama, based a true story, is riddled with cliche, depending a vague faith based perspective to give what audiences have seen over an ..
Blu Ray
2.5
Playing both sides against the middle, this fact based drama about high school football coach Bob Ladouceur and his De La Salle Spartans makes a comme ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
Every personal setback, medical emergency, or tragedy is just what happens in between one season, game, or practice and the next.
Mark Reviews Movies
1.5
While its not awful and has a smattering of decent, if scattered moments, this is a fairly bland sports drama offering, and one where the rest of the ..
Screen It
3.1
LENGTH 1:55 BOTTOM LINE Worthwhile messages of teamwork and sacrifice, but the stern, humorless tone might make you tune out.
News Day
3.0
Even when the outcome of games is never in question which is often its still exciting to watch.
Az Central
2.0
Even the football scrimmage sequences are bland, barring the climactic match.
Susang Ranger
2.0
The actual football scenes are engaging enough, but the off the field drama veers into maudlin territory and has very little humor.
Common Sense Media
3.8
Game is the more nuanced of the two movies, and by far a better piece of cinema.
Sf Gate
1.9
As if to drive the notion of football as a character building apparatus home, When the Game Stands Tall kicks off its narrative arc with a loss that s ..
Slant Magazine
1.9
Honor, humility and that most overworked of organs heart all get to play a few minutes of this Game..But when it comes down to fourth and goal, the mo ..
Washington Post
2.5
Its an interesting approach, but it makes for a structurally glitchy inspirational exercise whose climax carries all the goosebump making drama of a P ..
Boston Globe
2.5
When the Game Stands Tall is one of those cliche riddled feel good movies that, by trying too hard to be inspirational, ends up as cloying and overly ..
ReelViews
2.5
When the Game Stands Tall has the playbook to create a compelling, engaging and even inspirational football film, but fumbles nearly every opportunity ..
Lyles Movie Files
1.5
Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach.
Tony Medley
2.0
The movie focuses on the streaks end in 2003 two straight losses, yikes! and as you might imagine, director Thomas Carter and writer Scott Marshall Sm ..
Los Angeles Times
2.5
But then, theres more to life than just winning a mantra the movie announces with such frequency and fervor that if you dont leave the theater with it ..
Variety
3.1
Its not even about the football.Rather, its a values driven parable of character.
Groucho Reviews
0.6
The movie benefits from an ending thats far less ambiguous than that of its source material, to be sure, and its finally clear that If I Stay stands a ..
Reel Film
1.9
When the Game Stands Tall It was never just about winning.Watch the new trailer for When The Game Stands Tall inspired by the extraordinary true story ..
The Star
2.5
When the Game Stands Tall deserves credit for the positive message it is trying to give its audience, but its determination to communicate the ideals ..
Deseret News
3.8
When the Game Stands Tall is nearly as good as the average episode of TVs Friday Nights Lights, which makes it better than most movies and one of the ..
New York Post
3.1
And the message is clear: Bonds come through emotion, not just adrenaline.Character and effort count for a lot.
Red Eye Chicago
2.0
Every effective coach preaches teamwork, togetherness, and ultimate effort.
Film Racket
2.5
But dont expect more end zone excitement than on Any Given Easter Sunday.
Js Online
1.5
When Ladouceur gets offered a contract to coach for a major college, it gets treated like a scene from Faust. Thats how goody two shoes this movie is
The Dissolve
2.3
But When the Game Stands Tall inverts the usual sports movie ego boost, making itself less about triumph and more about humility.
Crave Online
3.1
But beyond the big picture ideas, the film itself struggled to answer its own questions.
Mercury News
2.5
Its hard to think of a film genre thats more American than the sports movie.
Movie Mezzanine
2.3
It is as if the producers chose to create a fantasy on top of what one would ordinarily think of as something completely made upa football team wins 1 ..
Daily Film Fix
1.5
The movie mixes bland dialogue, formulaic sports movie plot points, and vague Christian teachings with some disturbingly naive racial overtones.
Vue Weekly
3.0
Its corny moments like that that prevent this film from truly rising to the level of being a great sports film but what the feature lacks in dialogue, ..
Johnhanlon Reviews
4.5
From there, much of the film follows the expected sports film arc, but the performances, including Laura Dern as Beverly Ladouceur, are so spot on, it ..
World Wng
1.5
Simply put, the movies characters may be religious, but the film itself doesnt need to be.
Ut Sandiego
1.5
It isnt about how the team achieved its storied 151 game winning streak, however; but rather how it ultimately fumbled that winning streak and then re ..
Critics Notebook
1.3
What Im saying is that it is really hard to make a sports film that you just stop caring about.
Flixist
2.8
The mixed messages extend to the way the streak shattering loss is shot and scored, making it seem like the ultimate catastrophe.
Nc Register
2.0
But the movie struggles to find its dramatic center, or even a real message.
Neils Entertainment Picks
2.5
That Sunday, the tribal association will present the final day of its two day 30th annual Nansemond Indian Pow Wow.
Hampt On Roads
1.9
The film contains touching moments and a few compelling performances, but otherwise to paraphrase Gertrude Stein there isnt enough there there.
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