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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Equally thrilling and wrenching, the film is an absolute must for anyone who loves sports and an eloquent explanation for those who don't understand what the fuss is about. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: 'Restrained' and 'tasteful' are not words normally associated with McG, the director best known for countless music videos and the Charlie's Angels movie franchise. We Are Marshall could change that. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: We Are Marshall is the kind of crassly formulaic movie in which everything hinges on a single play in the final seconds of a big football game. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Matthew McConaughey injects some much needed life as the oddball coach who sets out to rebuild the football squad, and David Strathairn, Ian McShane, and Robert Patrick do their best with sketchy characters and artless dialogue. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: A series of montage and anecdotal vignettes follows as they recruit a whole new team, learn lessons from the catastrophe, lose and then win, with plenty of sentimentality sprinkled over the whole thing. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Strathairn brings a sense of integrity that makes even the film's most cliched moments forgivable. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: We Are Marshall isn't about grief or loss, but how these things can be overcome. It's uplifting, but shallow. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Among sports movies, We Are Marshall scores enough for respectability. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is the rare football drama (Friday Night Lights is another) that gives you a sense of what football means to a town. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: McConaughey's performance is oddly comic but actually serves to counter more traditional interpretations of a stoic coach leading his charges. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's a powerful subject, but director McG and screenwriter Jamie Linden haul out every cliche in the playbook. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Too bad the film doesn't sustain the mix of sorrow and hope the story requires. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: We Are Marshall has little of the bone-crunching sincerity of the recent pigskin rouser Invincible. This one is more like Unconvincing. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: As sincerely felt as it may be, We Are Marshall still comes off feeling contrived and superficial. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Every lump it puts in your throat is fully earned. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: A depressingly mechanical sports drama that seems not to have been written and directed so much as home assembled, Ikea-style, by pictorial instruction. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: It looks like every inspirational sports movie we've seen in the last five years. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: We Are Marshall (it's the rally cry of the team) doesn't always have a handle on the grief, but it does keep emotions close to the surface. That allows McConaughey to be the most refreshing, funny and believable he ever has been. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: We Are Marshall is precisely what one expects from a true sports story: it's uplifting and inspiring. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: We Are Marshall is a bit of a shame, because the subject matter could have been something special in the hands of stronger filmmakers. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: An entirely serviceable night out for buddies looking to locate hidden feelings. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: What's missing is any kind of insight into the lives of the dead players or the members of the Young Thundering Herd who rise up to replace them. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: This was undeniably a horrific event for the victims' families friends, colleagues as well as for the entire community. But the movie seems to almost exploit this tragedy so it can make audiences weep, and ultimately, cheer. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: Full of good intentions, We Are Marshall has a game plan that's hard to fault, but as with any playbook, a scheme is only as good as how well it's executed. Read more
Rob Nelson, Village Voice: Even by the low standards of the young-jocks-as-good-clean-soldiers movie, there's little at stake here, unless you count the kids' hunger to win one for the Gipper. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: As the world's biggest sucker for uplifting jock movies, I can heartily endorse the skillfully manipulative We Are Marshall. Read more