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95
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63
Critics' score based on 28 reviews.
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Does more than capture the excitement of marching bands; it gets their clockwork beauty as well.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Every holiday season needs a pleasant surprise, and this year it's Drumline. This entertaining and enthusiastically told tale shrewdly energizes its way-familiar plot line by setting it amid one of the greatest and least-known spectacles in American sports.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Shakes, rattles and rolls the house, building to a climax that makes you almost forget you're in a movie theater and not a football stadium at halftime.Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post

Entertaining for what it does, and admirable for what it doesn't do. It gets us involved in band politics and strategy, gives us a lot of entertaining halftime music, and provides a portrait of a gifted young man who slowly learns to discipline himself and think of others. That's what it does. What it doesn't do is recycle all the tired old cliches.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

A bonanza of pop uplift. It wraps the up-from-nothing drama of ''Flashdance'' in the sassy, interracial pep rallying of ''Bring It On'' and the military romance of ''An Officer and a Gentleman.''Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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