We Are Marshall Critic Reviews
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The actor's (McConaughey) lovable exuberance is exactly what this heartsick movie needs.Read the full review
We Are Marshall is precisely what one expects from a true sports story: it's uplifting and inspiring.Read the full review
The film is injected with a refreshing energy whenever McConaughey is on-screen, balancing some of the inherent sadness of the story.Read the full review
"Lost" star Matthew Fox pitches in with a strong performance as a coach who, by the laws of whimsy, didn't take the final flight home and had to struggle with survivor's guilt.Read the full review
Full of good intentions, We Are Marshall has a game plan that's hard to fault, but as with any playbook, a scheme is only as good as how well it's executed.Read the full review
What should have been an inspirational story about fortitude and courage in the face of mind-numbing tragedy becomes a compendium of sports cliches.Read the full review
It's uplifting, but shallow.Read the full review
We Are Marshall has little of the bone-crunchingsincerity of the recent pigskin rouser "Invincible." This one is more like Unconvincing.Read the full review
Its use of trite "Win one for the Gipper" dialogue, overbearing soaring music and conventional plot devices makes it far too formulaic to truly move us.Read the full review
A movie like We Are Marshall stands or falls on its ability to make you feel the pain and loss of individuals in a place where community pride and football are one and the same. As the film, directed by McG (the "Charlie's Angels" movies) from a wooden screenplay by Jamie Linden, follows a handful of Huntington residents during the months after the accident, not one of them comes fully to life.Read the full review
