Go Tigers! (2001)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 6
Go Tigers! is both an absorbing and evenhanded documentary, a perceptive look into the world of high school sports and its impact on a community.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 1
Go Tigers! is both an absorbing and evenhanded documentary, a perceptive look into the world of high school sports and its impact on a community.
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A first-hand account of young athletes in the high school football-obsessed town of Massillon, OH, this first feature by director Kenneth A. Carlson was shot on high-definition video over the course of the 1999 football season of the Massillon Tigers. At the beginning of the season, the team is nursing a "four-and-six nightmare season" and want to redeem themselves. Meanwhile, school officials attempt to raise funds though a tax levy after defeats at the polls, but if the levy is rejected again,
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A sharply observed and richly detailed nonfiction feature that plays like feel-good, crowd-pleasing entertainment.
Top CriticDirector Kenneth Carlson may be a little too close to the subject of this documentary.
Energetic and absorbing documentary.
A smart and often mesmerizing look at how high-school sports can hold a medium-sized town in its grip.
Achieves a neatly balanced tone right smack dab in between reverence and ridicule.
An enthralling look at the drama that can transpire in the autumn of one small town on any given Friday.
A really good documentary gets inside its subject and examines every aspect of it with a critical eye. Go Tigers! opens a lot of drawers but often only takes the slightest peek inside.
A sports documentary that is interested in much more than just sports.
Like the films Hoosiers and Hoop Dreams, Go Tigers! shows how a sport is more than just a game, but a part of American life.
Tales like this, told with passion and skill, are what make documentaries such a vibrant and enduring part of the cinema landscape.
It ranks among the top of the best sports documentaries ever made.
A really good documentary gets inside its subject and examines every aspect of it with a critical eye. Go Tigers! opens a lot of drawers but often only takes the slightest peek inside
Carlson is willing to overlook and forgive all of the craziness and even criminalities that find a home in Massillon.
Probably the best sports documentary since Hoop Dreams... Go Tigers! captures, vividly and unwaveringly, [high school] football as a civic enterprise.
There's some great sports footage, some colorful characters, and a great insight into the mind of a Midwestern football town.
Traverses an enormous amount of material ably and paints some vivid portraits in complex colors.
The sheer volume of topics here means the film isn't as in-depth as could have been, but it is a fine effort.
If ever there was a town that displayed the spirit of America, this is it.
a caution against an entire American culture grown fat, brutal, and stupid on their own frugal repast of bread and circus
In a vivid portrait of one high school football season, Carlson gives us a snapshot of American values on parade.
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