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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Eastwood, returning to race as a theme, has made a timely film about a nation of many races rallying around a leader who understands symbolism. Read more
A.O. Scott, At the Movies: The movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, has its corny moments, for sure, but it's also powerful, full of conviction and one of the most inspiring movies of the year. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Freeman goes only so far with a dialect, and the script barely gets into Mandela's complexities, but the performance feels fresh and spontaneous. Damon is becoming one of the truest, most reliable actors of his generation. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: Invictus" is only interested in South Africa and the challenges of reconciliation as a background setting and inspiring theme, not as a real place or a real problem; it's a thin, hollow shell designed expressly to be coated in Oscar gold. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: It's an exciting sports movie, an inspiring tale of prejudice overcome and, above all, a fascinating study of political leadership. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: Invictus is dripping with inspiration -- how to summon it, how to communicate it. Late in his career, Eastwood seems to be finding it everywhere. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A win-win situation in which a mainstream feature works equally well as stirring entertainment and a history lesson about a remarkable convergence of sports and statesmanship. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Eastwood, tackling a sports movie very different from Million Dollar Baby, paces the action beautifully, right up to one white-knuckle moment late in the film (involving a plane) when you suddenly realized how invested in the story you've become. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: What Eastwood has done is to assemble a cast of American and South African actors and allow them to create something moving, exciting, and improbably true. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Clint Eastwood brings his usual late-career leisureliness behind the camera to the movie, in an initially frustrating approach that becomes increasingly satisfying as the film moves along. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Eastwood too often veers into trite territory, undercutting some of the story's power. An unlikely World Cup run may be a soothing balm on a nation's wounds, but it's not a cure-all, no matter how inspiring it may be. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Can a story on this scale function as compelling drama? I actually think that's what interests Eastwood the most here: the challenge of making historical figures move with the grace of remembered life. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Eastwood, who will be 80 next year, understands the flow of narrative in a way younger directors might envy. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Anthony Peckham's script is formulaic, woodenly reverent, and devoid of real dramatic tension. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Eastwood makes moving pictures that seldom collapse under the burden of sentiment. He has a muscular understanding of how kernels of wisdom needn't become caramel corn. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A work of flawed majesty. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The film's speechifying is at times overexplicit, yet Freeman lets the words breathe, and Damon, as the cautious Afrikaner brought to a higher place by Mandela's authority, acts with a 
 coolly impassive fervor. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: It's a bore, really -- a pedestrian movie about a remarkable subject. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: The lapses fade in the face of such a soul-stirring story -- one that would be hard to believe if it were fiction. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR: Loses steam in its last half-hour, but it has obvious virtues -- and it feels heartfelt, a generous elder's film about a generous elder's bequest to the world. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Morgan Freeman's performance as Nelson Mandela in Invictus is, like Clint Eastwood's film as a whole, constructed of deliberate decisions and never feels false. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Depicts an unlikely intersection of sports and leadership in ways that manage to be inspiring and insightful without ever becoming schmaltzy or preachy. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The film is flawed, rambling and much too long, but in the end it leaves the audience cheering. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: It may look like a movie-of-the-week and it certainly has some wincingly bad musical passages, but Invictus is an entertaining movie about a masterful piece of political theater. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Inspirational albeit conventional sports film from Clint Eastwood, with terrific work from Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Clint Eastwood, a master director, orchestrates all of these notes and has us loving Mandela, proud of Francois and cheering for the plucky Springboks. A great entertainment. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Eastwood's modest approach to these momentous events shames the usual Hollywood showboating. In a rare achievement, he's made a film that truly is good for the soul. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: For a picture with so much invested in its staunch sense of social justice, Invictus ultimately goes down not as medicine but as entertainment. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's never less than worthy and entertaining, but the importance of Invictus doesn't broaden as it goes along. It narrows. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Freeman-as-Mandela is an actor all dressed up with no place to go -- at least, nowhere we didn't already know he was headed. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's a film of big themes played out on a grand scale, a story of races and generations making an effort to connect. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: On its face, this is your basic redemption-through-sports story. What makes it special is Eastwood's ability to artfully and concisely tell a story, and Morgan Freeman's wonderfully understated turn as South African President Nelson Mandela. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The story of how Nelson Mandela chose the white-supported national rugby team, the Springboks, to become a symbol of national reconciliation is uncharacteristically optimistic for Eastwood. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: As always, Eastwood brings solid craftsmanship to the proceedings, with direction that allows the actors to breathe while remaining alert to small details that speak of greater wisdom. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Who'd have thought that old Dirty Harry would, with Letters from Iwo Jima and Invictus, become America's prime director of international trauma and triumph? Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: A noble and compassionate work that in its later scenes manages successfully to invest our emotions in the triumph of an important - if overlong! - sporting victory. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: [T]he epitome of Hollywood filmmaking in ways both good and bad: uplifting, overlong, ambitious in scope but simple in moral vision, well-crafted but inured to irony. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Inspirational on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: Invictus is stately, handsomely mounted, attentive to detail right down to the Marmite adorning the team's breakfast buffet, and relentlessly conventional. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Morgan Freeman doesn't play Mandela as much as inhabit the man, in a performance that seems to embody the very transcendence that Mandela himself has come to stand for. Read more