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Using documentary-style Super 16 film and staged cutaway interviews with friends and family, James and his photographer and co-producer, Peter Gilbert, fashioned a movie with an affecting, candid look.Full Review

Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle

His complex personality comes through in this surprisingly affecting minor pleasure, though perhaps one shouldn't be surprised when two of Hoop Dreams' key makers reunite for another smart sports pic. [24Jan1997 Pg.03.D]Full Review

Mike Clark
USA Today

What sets Prefontaine aside from most sports movies is that it's not about winning the big race. It's about the life of a runner.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

But at best, the movie has an air of immediacy, freeing it from the ossified myth-making that plagues many true-life biopics.Full Review

The Onion A.V. Club

But at best, the movie has an air of immediacy, freeing it from the ossified myth-making that plagues many true-life biopics.Full Review

Maria Schneider
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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