The Legend of Bagger Vance Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A pleasant myth.Read the full review
Not only is it excruciatingly boring -- but its central premises are so banal and dubious as to border on offensiveness.Read the full review
The movie is one dead, overcomposed scene after another.Read the full review
This saved-by-an-angel story is redeemed mostly by Smith's comic instincts.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
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
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
A slight, disingenuous script that robs the characters of their histories.Read the full review
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
