Friday Night Lights Critic Reviews
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One of the best football movies ever, Nights in the end celebrates the game.Read the full review
The movie demonstrates the power of sports to involve us; we don't live in Odessa and are watching a game played 16 years ago, and we get all wound up.Read the full review
Thornton, giving a splendid, disciplined performance, seamlessly shapes his coach into a believable man of quality rather than star-size charisma.Read the full review
The film lets you get caught up in the excitement of this religion and the addictive nature of those stadium lights. Berg and cinematographer Tobias Schliessler get up close to the action, catching the hits and miscues in all their violent urgency.Read the full review
Compelling.Read the full review
Thornton gets inside the coach's skin. It's a subtle, soulful performance in a movie that otherwise goes for the jugular.Read the full review
Berg's picture is certainly an above average effort that provides a solid emotional punch.Read the full review
It also bears something you rarely experience in a football movie. Friday Night Lights has a soul.Read the full review
Give credit to Berg for keeping Bissinger's all-too-true ending intact. It's a doozy.Read the full review
Uplifting and troubling, partly because it is more honest than most sports movies about the high cost and short life span of high school football glory.Read the full review
