Glory Road Critic Reviews

Slick enterprise buoyed by a Motown-flavored '60s soundtrack and an appealing ensemble cast.Read the full review

From its sepia-toned palette to the Motown hits that drive its terrific soundtrack, Glory Road is utterly authentic. But most astonishing is an unrecognizable Jon Voight as Adolph Rupp.Read the full review

Where it succeeds is as the story of a chapter in history, the story of how one coach at one school arrived at an obvious conclusion and acted on it, and helped open college sports in the South to generations of African Americans.Read the full review

Glory Road's strength is the way in which it blends social awareness into the sports genre.Read the full review

Stirring tale of a team whose big win speeds the integration of intercollegiate sports.Read the full review

This isn't a great film, but it's a surprisingly good and confident one, with a minimum of the showboating that often substitutes, in the feelgood genre, for simple feelings.Read the full review

At least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's "Coach Carter."Read the full review

Ripped directly from Disney's playbook of inspirational sports movies, it's devoid of any original elements that might deter it from that successful formula, hewing closer to the sentimental cliches of "Remember the Titans" than the much better "Miracle" or "The Rookie."Read the full review

Glory Road is satisfying less for its virtuosity than for its sincerity, and also because it will acquaint audiences with a remarkable episode that had ramifications far beyond the basketball court.Read the full review