A League of Their Own 1992

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: Few of the other performers make an impression. A director who can lose Madonna in a crowd can't be said to appreciate charisma. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Though amusing enough to avoid absolutely drowning in schmaltz, it's sad to see a film with potential lose its way in the late innings. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: What does it say about today's Hollywood when the most interesting character in a movie about a women's baseball team turns out to be a man? Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: League wants you to laugh more than anything else, and Hanks makes sure that you will. Read more

Vincent Canby, New York Times: One of the year's most cheerful, most relaxed, most easily enjoyable comedies. It's a serious film that's lighter than air, a very funny movie that manages to score a few points for feminism in passing. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Deftly structured by director Penny Marshall and writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel to resemble a 40s musical (albeit, somewhat anachronistically, one in 'Scope); the rest is mainly streamlined and spirited teamwork. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: From its jokey, one-note characters to its endless baseball montages, A League of Their Own is all flash, all surface: It's a great big trailer for itself. Read more

Michael Sragow, New Yorker: This movie aims for the tear ducts and the funny bone as ruthlessly as the big action-fantasy hits go after the viscera. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie has a real bittersweet charm. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Energetic, full of goodwill and good feelings, it never quite attains the graceful nonchalance and self-confidence with which finely tuned athletes -- and comedies -- move and enchant us. Read more

Colette Maude, Time Out: Scriptwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel neglect the ensemble, emphasising a sense of historical occasion over character development. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Hits about .250 with a few RBI, but more than its share of strikeouts. Read more

Joe Brown, Washington Post: Marshall gums it all up in hokey sentiment. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Graced by Davis and enlivened by Lovitz and the ensemble cast, it sends us home feeling a little higher, with visions of peanuts and Cracker Jack floating in our heads. Read more