Any Given Sunday Critic Reviews

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USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

Though there are helmets deeper than this movie, you do have to admire the level of screen showmanship .Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter StackAdd Critic to Favorites

Features convincing, often soaring, performances by a savvy cast that must have gotten adrenaline shots administered by Stone himself.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a close call here. I guess I recommend the movie because the dramatic scenes are worth it. But if some studio executive came along and made Stone cut his movie down to two hours, I have the strangest feeling it wouldn't lose much of substance and might even play better.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

The film's cumulative effect is as exhausting as it is exciting.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

(Stone's) most accessible and purely enjoyable film in years.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

Far too long, but its rambunctiousness is engaging, propelled by Stone's virtuosic quick-cutting.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

This energetic and diverting sports soap opera throws a few head fakes in the direction of an iconoclastic examination of the dark side of professional football.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

It's about as deep as electronic white noise.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

For much of the movie, the kinetic furor of the game sequences helps camouflage the weaknesses of a screenplay that is a mechanically contrived series of power struggles.Read the full review

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