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100
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52
Critics' score based on 25 reviews.
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The movie's inevitabilities (the humiliating loss, the ebb and flow of camaraderie, the triumphant finale) have deep resonance.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

Gridiron Gang gives you a lot more to think about during the ride home.Full Review

Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle

A crowd-pleasing, uplifting, feel-good and not-so-rare hybrid -- the sports/prison movie -- in which Los Angeles gangbangers are taught the virtues of trading violence on the streets for violence on the field.Full Review

Variety

A crowd-pleasing, uplifting, feel-good and not-so-rare hybrid -- the sports/prison movie -- in which Los Angeles gangbangers are taught the virtues of trading violence on the streets for violence on the field.Full Review

John Anderson
Variety

None of their stories are particularly resonant, but the film is really about a grand social experiment gone right, and it succeeds well enough on that front, even while it isn't that convincing in the particulars.Full Review

Scott Tobias
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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