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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film.comTom KeoghFilm.comTom KeoghA huge surprise: a startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining slice of American history, a popcorn movie with complex observations about, of all things, racism.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleEarns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaA conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHas 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.
- 63Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe script's hokiness flattens the performances.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDenzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA shrewd, pulpy crowd-pleaser.
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirHerman 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.
- 40Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversDistressingly shallow.
- 38New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsHistory 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.