Seabiscuit Reviews

An inspiring story for teens and up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's inspiring despite a sobering thesis: The future is intoxicating, but progress is a kind way of rendering someone's livelihood obsolete. Gary Ross probed the underdog principle's heart: Success outside the comfort zone is the sweetest of all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Writer-director Ross's true-believer American salesmanship%u2014inspired by Frank Capra and honed in Dave and Pleasantville--suits this story of American entrepreneurship, optimism, and resilience. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Respectable when it should be thrilling, honorable when it should be rough and ready.

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[It] may be too airbrushed for its own good, but in the end nothing can stop this story from putting a lump in your throat.

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Seabiscuit is not a work of great art, but it tells its solid story with grace and dignity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

We root for Seabiscuit, of course, but more out of obligation than devotion -- after all, we paid to see him.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

I found this film stultifyingly self-important and, despite the regularity with which it cuts to the chase, weirdly static.

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For a film about an unfancied underdog, Seabiscuit is just far too pleased with itself.

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So predictable that even this true story--the one so few people today know anything about -- seems like an accomplished fact before the opening credits are through.

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It's a well-made film with some nice performances, but it lacks any sort of dramatic fire.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The foolproof recipe for an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing slice of summer counterprogramming, and Gary Ross hasn't botched the ready-made job.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The film becomes a parable about the power of seeing potential and cultivating it, even in those who do not aim so high themselves.

| Original Score: B

The terrific horse racing sequences, exciting as they are, complement the base story of human dignity and perseverance.

Full Review | Original Score: A

It's a good story well told, most of the actors are good, and the cinematography should win awards.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

A quiet film, oftentimes silent for moments on end, in reflection of both tragedy and triumph.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Watching this movie, you get the feeling that the Depression existed so that Seabiscuit could be memorialized.

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There's nothing for the audience to observe except the construction presented. Seabiscuit makes all its connections and observations for you.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Is ''Seabiscuit'' as good as Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book? Not quite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A direção maniqueísta de Ross, a trilha sentimentalóide de Randy Newman e o roteiro repleto de clichês derrubam a boa história.

| Original Score: 3/5