Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
48
(32 sources)
48
(32 sources)
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88
Chicago Tribune
Works better and cuts deeper than the mostly fictionalized "Hoosiers." Read Full Review » -
88
New York Post
A civics lesson about integration very artfully - and entertainingly - disguised as an upbeat family sports movie. Read Full Review » -
80
Film.com
A huge surprise: a startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining slice of American history, a popcorn movie with complex observations about, of all things, racism. Read Full Review » -
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Earns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along. Read Full Review » -
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
A conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale. Read Full Review » -
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Has the outer form of a brave statement about the races in America, but the soul of a sports movie in which everything is settled by the obligatory last play in the last seconds of the championship game. Read Full Review » -
75
Christian Science Monitor
It has a good heart, though, and makes an amiable introduction to the integration battles of the '60s and '70s. Read Full Review » -
75
Baltimore Sun
Lively and inspirational, with terrific performances from a big star and a host of supporting players. Read Full Review » -
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It really does communicate an optimistic sense that race is irrelevant and we can all live happily ever after together. Read Full Review » -
75
Boston Globe
Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes. Read Full Review » -
75
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75
USA Today
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in an atypically high-minded and low-budget frame of mind, manages to breeze through most of the gridiron genre's obstacles with his admirable, crowd-pleasing Titans. Read Full Review » -
75
Mr. Showbiz
Ultimately nothing more than a live-action cartoon. A high-minded, inspiring cartoon, but a cartoon nonetheless. Read Full Review » -
63
San Francisco Examiner
A proudly unsophisticated demonstration of racial progress. Read Full Review » -
63
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50
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50
Salon.com
Herman Boone was no doubt a terrific football coach, but the lessons to be drawn from his success in Alexandria are ambiguous, and Remember the Titans is too wrapped up in its weepy macho sentimentality to address them clearly. Read Full Review » -
50
Entertainment Weekly
Denzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep. Read Full Review » -
50
The New York Times
If Remember the Titans is corny, it's unabashedly, even generously so. Read Full Review » -
50
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50
TNT RoughCut
Perfectly effective when judged on its own merits, but is that really enough anymore? Read Full Review » -
50
TV Guide
This mix of sweat and uplift in the Civil Rights era doesn't quite come off, despite some strong performances and the fact that it's based on a genuinely inspirational true story. Read Full Review » -
50
Chicago Reader
The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless. Read Full Review » -
40
Austin Chronicle
Falls short of both the social history lesson it so pointedly strives to impart and the sport it so roughly embraces. Read Full Review » -
40
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38
New York Daily News
History as filtered through the faux-liberal prism of Hollywood's dream factory, and an insult, I believe, to the people who actually carried the fight and endured the pain for civil rights. Read Full Review » -
30
Film.com
Simplistic and non-controversial, and thus is virtually guaranteed commercial success. Read Full Review » -
30
LA Weekly
Bruckheimer's latest is in some crucial respects worse than those earlier blockbuster bids ("Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Coyote Ugly") -- certainly it's more fraudulent -- because unlike those films, which don't claim to be about anything other than thrills and tits, Remember the Titans means to be about race. Read Full Review » -
30
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20
Washington Post
A feel-good movie only in the sense that it wants to reassure today's white people about our own enlightenment and how far we've come in the evolution of our attitudes about race. Read Full Review » -
10
Washington Post
So smug and so proud of itself, and you can tell that everybody involved conceives of it as a civics lesson instead of a story, that they squeeze all the life out of it. Read Full Review » -
10
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