Reviews

"A detailed yet uninvolving soccer film."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY

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"Game Of Their Lives wants to be the unabashed, feel good movie of the year, not that there's anything wrong with that"
-- Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM

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"...should be a major crowd-pleaser among those who realize there's more than one game called "football" in the world."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES

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"Snooze."
-- Steve Rhodes, INTERNET REVIEWS

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"Too many references to the inevitable popularity of soccer in America make [the film] less about the players' lives and more about selling soccer as a spectator sport."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

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"Pure, unadulterated sentiment served up with a straight face, The Game of Their Lives is a middling depiction of one of the all-time great underdog stories in sports history."
-- Timothy Knight, REEL.COM

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"David and Goliath roll in their graves."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

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"The Game of Their Lives has little to recommend unless you're jonesing for a generic period piece boasting lots of slow-motion sports montages set to swelling music."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
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"Angelo Pizzo's screenplay is rife with the expected sports and gamesmanship cliches, and he and Anspaugh take forever just to get to the game action, which is the only really worthwhile material."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
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"Enough enthusiasm, authenticity, and spirited soccer play to offset the missing ingredients."
-- Mark Sells, OREGON HERALD
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"The sequences of the actual games are extraordinarily realistic..."
-- Tony Medley, TONYMEDLEY.COM
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"A sentimental, creaky, underwritten, overloaded picture that fails as character study, period film, sports movie and heart-stirrer."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
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"The Game of Their Lives takes a standard inspirational sports movie structure."
-- Cynthia Fuchs, COMMONSENSEMEDIA.ORG
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"This narrowly focused, devotional film details (to a fault) how a rag-tag assemblage of Sunday soccer players defied all odds in achieving an American dream."
-- Jules Brenner (FC), CINEMA SIGNALS
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