Friday Night Lights Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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It also bears something you rarely experience in a football movie. Friday Night Lights has a soul.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
Real enough around the edges to hold our attention even if it sacrifices accuracy for storytelling ease.Read the full review
Berg's picture is certainly an above average effort that provides a solid emotional punch.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
Compelling.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
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
When Friday Night Lights gets to the big games, the time it's spent creates an atmosphere thick with tension, one akin to the real-world experience of watching a favorite team play for its life.Read the full review
