The Legend of Bagger Vance Critic Reviews

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Based upon 11 Critic Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

It handles a sports movie the way Billie Holiday handled a trashy song, by finding the love and pain beneath the story.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

It offers pleasures of a kind that fewer and fewer films even seem to remember, much less aspire to.Read the full review

USA Today | Susan WloszczynaAdd Critic to Favorites

Molasses-paced fable.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

So meticulous in its craftsmanship and so earnest in its storytelling that it feels both physically and spiritually airbrushed.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

There's not a moment in Bagger Vance that can't be anticipated.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Bob GrahamAdd Critic to Favorites

A pleasant myth.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

A lightweight, modestly engaging yarn sporting reductive mystical and philosophical elements that are both valid and borderline silly.Read the full review

Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites

A slight, disingenuous script that robs the characters of their histories.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

This saved-by-an-angel story is redeemed mostly by Smith's comic instincts.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie is one dead, overcomposed scene after another.Read the full review

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