Underdogs, comebacks, and the big game. Sports movie reviews judging whether the film earns the final whistle or just plays the montage.
BiopicThe Blind Side (2009) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A competently made film in which a wealthy white family takes in a homeless Black teenager, told almost entirely from the family's position, and Sandra Bullock won…
ActionSpeed Racer (2008) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The Wachowskis spent a hundred and twenty million dollars building a candy-colored world with no shadows in it, made ninety-four back, and produced the most misunderstood studio film…
DramaThe Natural (1984) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Levinson took a bleak 1952 novel about a man who takes the bribe and inverted its ending completely, which is either the film's great betrayal or the reason…
ComedyCaddyshack (1980) rates 8.5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The plot was abandoned during production and the film assembled itself out of whatever four comedians did in front of the camera. It should not work. It made sixty…
DocumentaryArchive footage only, no talking heads. Brazilian champion's career through his 1994 death.
Documentary1997-98 championship season as spine. The production runs across ten episodes totaling approximately eight hours.
CrimeSimpson trial through race-and-celebrity prism. Won Oscar despite TV format.
DocumentaryCamera operators with PTSD from filming. The film was produced by National Geographic Documentary Films on a budget of approximately two million dollars and grossed approximately twenty-eight million dollars worldwide, winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
DocumentarySnubbed by Oscars in major scandal. Hoop Dreams is Steve James's 1994 American documentary tracking two African-American teenagers from Chicago, William Gates and Arthur Agee, across five years as they pursue careers in professional basketball through high school recruitment, family…
DramaScorsese's 1986 Hustler sequel. Paul Newman returns as Fast Eddie alongside Tom Cruise.
DramaHugh Hudson's 1981 British Olympic drama. Two 1924 runners, one Christian one Jewish.
DramaBennett Miller's 2011 baseball analytics drama. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, Jonah Hill as Peter Brand.
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