The Legend of Bagger Vance Critic Reviews

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

Redford plays the game of filmmaking to reveal what he holds sacred: story, character, feeling, thoughtful pacing, and an alertness of nuances of honor and shame that most movies skip in the rush to the rush.Read the full review

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

Molasses-paced fable.Read the full review

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

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

A pleasant myth.Read the full review

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

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