The Flying Scotsman 2006

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Tells a tale both fast and moving. And when Miller as Obree takes his whirls around the track, it gets your heart pumping and your blood up. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Slow-moving 2006 biopic about Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: [The] cinematography provides a unique perspective on a racing cyclist's view as Obree goes round and round, monotonously, on a slanted track. But an equally compelling look from the inside of Obree's illness offers the film's most stunning moment. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: It's a story that practically begs to be made into a film, albeit preferably one less pat than The Flying Scotsman. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: If you ride for pleasure or for sport -- or just to get from one place to another -- Scotsman is worth seeing. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Scotsman not only lacks vision, a true sense of how to mesh Obree's sporting triumphs and personal setbacks, but it also lacks passion. What it needs, as strange and tacky as it may sound, is a bit more madness. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Has a terminal case of the cutes crossed with the labored earnestness of a disease-of-the-week melodrama. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: It's an underdog story with teeth. Read more

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Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: The filmmaking is unremarkable, but the obsessiveness of the lead character is infectious enough to make this drama passable entertainment. Read more

Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: Even for audiences who normally would not be interested in cycling, The Flying Scotsman is a good choice, because this film is about so much more. Miller has given us an appealing, if unusual, protagonist who leads us to cheer him on in life. Read more

Susan Walker, Toronto Star: For all its dramatic manipulation, The Flying Scotsman succeeds, in a modest way, because it's true. Read more

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Derek Adams, Time Out: There's much to admire here, even if you're not into cycling. Douglas Mackinnon's made a fine fist of a great little underdog story. Read more

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Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post: A classic tale of the heroic little guy that goes beyond the sport of cycling, told with elegant restraint in this sensitive and beautifully rendered film. Read more