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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 73% Fresh Page   1   8/10 "It’s hard to feel anything but hope as the end credits scroll."   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf 4.5/5 "It may look like a long shot, but this one's a real winner."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null "It offers up those lovely, exhilarating races. At these moments, it feels most like it's about horses, and their particular poetry."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 66/100 "Beautiful, but kinda dumbly obvious. Maguire does solid work, but Ross's heavy handedness is crushing."   Cinemania   Dan Jardine 3/4 "Solid storytelling (if a little too slick and calculated) guaranteed to generate a lump in one's throat."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth C+ "A bloated inspirational story."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Ultimately, the highlight of Seabiscuit is its memorable performances, superior to the merely passable screenplay they must support."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "Seabiscuit superficially and naively underscores the many trials and tribulations of its titular racehorse with scenes of American underdevelopment."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B+ "It has the fine performances and dramatic heft of a late-fall picture, but drops the self-importance and plays up the feel-goodness the way the best summer crowd-pleasers do."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "With a cast, a fillmaker and a story as inspirational as this, Seabiscuit should have either flown out of the gate or come charging late in the stretch rather than constantly waiting to make its move in the middle of the pack."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "The film stymied my every attempt to like it until I was forced to conclude that despite the pine-fresh smell it emits by virtue of its release date, it's just not very good."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C+ "A well-groomed example of middlebrow kitsch...what might have been an exuberant tale of the Sport of Kings is instead a hokey ode to the resiliency of the common man. Neigh...I mean nay."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 5/5 "Crosses the finish line as a convincing winner with its story of an underdog horse and three nobodies who join him in a quest that becomes an adventure for the whole country."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "Even though Seabiscuit is a little on the long side, it works more often than not."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Unfortunately, too much of Seabiscuit forces its ideas on us, rather than allowing us to discover them for ourselves."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Glowing story of three men, a horse and their era earns the right to move you, despite rigging its own course."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2.5/4 "A saccharine valentine to America’s post-Depression era spirit that carries its earnest shine too far over the finish line."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 9/10 "I will admit Seabiscuit is Oscar-bait ... when it's done right, it's wonderful. Seabiscuit is done right."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 43/100 "There's no escaping the fact while watching it that we're essentially watching the story of an icon founded out of PR hype."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 7/10 "This is a good movie, but not a great one."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 2/5 "promises filet mignon, only to deliver oats and hay"   ToxicUniverse.com   John A. Nesbit "Underdogs and dreamers, compelled by adversity, hardship and heartbreak, race to the finish line in "Seabiscuit," a nostalgic tale of heroism, hope and history that emerges as a thoroughbred of summer movies."   Light Views   John Larsen 9/10 "The best non-animated mainstream film to be released so far this calendar year"   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 2/4 "Instead of a cohesive whole, it’s like a string of disconnected Oscar clips."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "I doubt it will seriously be remembered at Oscar time, but it sure beats Tomb Raider 2."   Countingdown.com   Larry Carroll B- ""Seabiscuit" is lacking outside of the track"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/5 "[A] solidly old-fashioned film."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3.5/4 "The film ultimately works so well... because of its dedication to its central characters."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 6/10 "A stereotyped and familiar story done with a good deal of style."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "There’s something else going on besides the usual Oscar-baiting, triumph-of-the-human-and-equine-spirit shrink-wrapped Gourmet Film."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "The foolproof recipe for an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing slice of summer counterprogramming, and Gary Ross hasn't botched the ready-made job."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 4/4 "Just as the real Seabiscuit restored the faith of a Depression-era society, so does Seabiscuit - the movie - restore my faith in the warm-weather cinematic season."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Brings every underdog theme out of the stable, making a movie with familiar themes seem as handsome as a thoroughbred, albeit one that has trouble in the homestretch."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2.5/4 "The only truly striking performance is the hilarious turn by the invaluable William H. Macy...it comes as a blessed relief from the otherwise draggy proceedings."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 4.5/5 "It's a real crowd-pleaser ... and probably an Academy-pleaser as well!"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "Seabiscuit is not a work of great art, but it tells its solid story with grace and dignity."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves A- "Seabiscuit is a triumph of storytelling craftsmanship, a great film less for its subject matter than with the care it takes in presenting it to us."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux A "If you don't like this movie, you may have a pulse, but you've got no heart."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ ""Seabiscuit" isn't the unabashed masterpiece that I had hoped for but it is an exciting, well-crafted sports drama about an unlikely athlete."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B "Seabiscuit canters handsomely around the track less like a scrappy race horse than a slightly overfed show horse, playing to the crowd, confident that there's no real competition breathing down its neck. It is right."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 10/10 "Seabiscuit is one of the great American legends -- and now there's a movie that does it justice."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 1/4 "Ponderous mainstream pap of the "suspended mote" school of controversy-free nostalgia."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf "Screened at Loews Lincoln Square"   BlackFilm.com   Wilson Morales 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 73% Fresh Page   1