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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: This film's overriding message is as pleasing as its flippant, skillful banter. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Dispiritingly conventional and obvious. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Breaking down the golf trajectories into separate shots during the sports climax comes across as an expedient form of cheating--the very opposite of authenticity. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The climactic game, in which Roy, in a way that defies prediction, attempts to sink the shot of his life, is the most rousing sequence of the year, a celebration of what it really means to win. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: As sports movies go (regardless of the sport), this one turns in a respectable showing, injecting some intelligence and maturity into a story that easily could have succumbed to a flood of 'struggling underdog' cliches. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A formula sports comedy with a lot of non-formula human comedy. Read more
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Tin Cup, starring Kevin Costner as a likable loser, accomplishes the impossible, maybe the unimaginable -- it makes golf entertaining. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Amiable and constantly amusing rather than uproarious, this mangy tale of a ne'er-do-well's fitful assault on personal and professional respectability benefits greatly from Kevin Costner's ingratiatingly comic star turn. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap. Read more