The Sandlot 1993

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: In The Sandlot's nostalgia for simpler times, a single-sex world seems to be a key component. Read more

Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times: The kids even have their own treehouse, which means that the production designer is the only person connected with this project who actually went out on a limb. Read more

Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer: A solid double rather than a grand slam, The Sandlot remains a refreshing antidote to the daily round of contract squabbles on the sports page. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Nothing about his modest coming-of-age comedy demands anything like this awestruck approach. Read more

Bob Cannon, Entertainment Weekly: Old baseball wisdom: The best teams win with strong fundamentals. So do the best movies. Read more

Michael Sragow, New Yorker: There's a snappy change-of-pace gag involving a little guy and a nubile lifeguard, but the screams and barks and fraudulent emotions grow wearying. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Predictable as the movie is, the Field of Dreams quality is not the only thing to like about The Sandlot. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a movie... that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult domains and values. Read more

Time Out: Ever since Stand by Me, it seems that every Boy's Own yarn is deemed incomplete without a nostalgic, pseudo-ironic voice-over waxing lyrical about the mythology of short pants and acne. Read more

Leonard Klady, Variety: Sweet and sincere, the film is also a remarkably shallow wade, rife with incident and slim on substance. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The Sandlot isn't well made but it's alive with dopey, summertime spirit. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Older kids and overgrown ones too probably will notice that nothing much ever happens in this belabored suburban variation on The Little Rascals. Read more