Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos Critic Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a stylish scramble of evocative footage, groovy music, and crazy-candid reminiscences from key players still proud to score.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | G. Allen JohnsonAdd Critic to Favorites

What fun this documentary is.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin CrustAdd Critic to Favorites

An exuberant look at a heady moment in America's soccer past that is well worth remembering.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Frank ScheckAdd Critic to Favorites

This tale of the team that for a brief period in the 1970s promised to popularize soccer in the U.S. has it all: heroes, villains, sex and, oh yes, some sports as well.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Informative and entertaining.Read the full review

Variety | Leslie FelperinAdd Critic to Favorites

While soccer fans will rep the core aud, even non-fans can enjoy.Read the full review

The New York Times | Jeannette CatsoulisAdd Critic to Favorites

This is a movie so unabashedly in love with its subject that even audiences who don't know Giorgio Chinaglia from Georgie Best will leave the theater grinning.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites

Once In A Lifetime is less a proper documentary than an extended VH1 Behind The Music episode, but there's only a little bit wrong with that.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie is only so-so, borrowing a little from the VH-1 school of popumentary but lacking the snazzy production values.Read the full review

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