White Men Can't Jump 1992

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: A fresh and exuberant romantic comedy that is as smart about playground basketball as Bull Durham was about minor league baseball. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: It's a funny, frequently rousing film, with a warmly appealing acting partnership at its center-between basketball hustlers Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: They're black and white instead of fat and thin, but Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson have the makings of a classic comedy team, the Laurel and Hardy of the half-court game. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: White Man Can't Jump is most effective at the beginning -- when it's bouncing along with the exuberance that Shelton brought to such other sports-minded movies as Bull Durham and The Best of Times. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Despite charismatic performances by Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as nothing-but- net shooters who might be called the Schmo and the Bro, White Men Can't Jump throws up mostly bricks. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: This film unfolds in an uncommonly sweet, harmonious climate, one in which rude remarks are the sine qua non of friendship. And that benign atmosphere becomes a large part of its charm. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This picture is packed with fun, but it doesn't really go anywhere. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: White Men features some amusingly daft racial banter. Read more

Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker: Harrelson's performance is rich, subtle, and delicately funny. And Snipes is just amazing: everything he does seems to leap off the screen. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here is a comedy of great high spirits, with an undercurrent of sadness and sweetness that makes it a lot better than the plot itself could possibly suggest. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: What Shelton fails to provide is a coherent structure; the film is wearyingly repetitive. Read more

Stephen Garrett, Time Out: A double-whammy slam-dunker of a movie. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: This is one director who loves words, and what a rare thing that is. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: For the most part, it's a provocative one-on-one between racial opposites Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Read more