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Friday Night Lights (2004) - Movie Reviews - Page 28 of 30

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 07 Oct 2004

Contains just the right mix of grunting, cheerleading and backbiting, of failure and success, of broken dreams and great expectations…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 07 Oct 2004

Given [the editing and jittery camera work], it's hard to know exactly how to feel about the film…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 07 Oct 2004

Does a terrific job of exposing the pressure, intensity and, yes, near-insanity of high-school football in the West Texas town of Odessa…

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By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 07 Oct 2004

an unusually dark and serious examination of the intense pressure put on [high school football players] in a poor town…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 07 Oct 2004

The saddest sports movie since Hoop Dreams…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for FilmStew.com (638) on 07 Oct 2004

Black is positively riveting to watch; who would have expected the gangly kid who befriended Carl Childers in Sling Blade to now be muscling…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 07 Oct 2004

It's a passably made, grittily acted slice of life in Texas that veers not an inch from the norm for this sort of picture…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (630) on 07 Oct 2004

refuses to shy away from the way high school football ... can trample a kid's love for the game…

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By Kit Bowen (393) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 07 Oct 2004

Gripping? Gut wrenching? Sure, but if you've seen one high school football movie, especially one set in Texas, you've seen them all…

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By David Foucher (211) for EDGE Boston (239) on 07 Oct 2004

Peter Berg's skilled vision and Billy Bob's retrained performance result not only the best football film we've seen in years…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 07 Oct 2004

The movie shows the good, the bad, and the brutality of the sport... with all the chills and thrills that you need, plus some…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for FilmJerk.com (622) on 07 Oct 2004

Lights only diverts narrative tedium when the gladiators take the field; effectively drowning out the nonsense that eventually takes place…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (604) on 07 Oct 2004

[T]he belief that high school athletics is something worth ruining lives over is more likely to strike one as pathetic than praiseworthy…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 07 Oct 2004

This is flat-out the rawest, most realistic piece of storytelling about the sport that I've ever seen…

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By Jeffrey Bruner (125) for Des Moines Register (125) on 07 Oct 2004

Friday Night Lights fires up a gritty, grubby look at the dark underside of Texas' primary religion - football…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 07 Oct 2004

[A] lifestyle advertisement for the noxious small-town culture that turns high-school football players into local heroes, no matter what price…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 07 Oct 2004

Friday Night Lights is a slice of small town life where the success or failure of their beloved team will resonate and set the mood of the…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for Modamag.com (300) on 07 Oct 2004

This impressive, inspirational story not only captures the exhilaration of the gridiron action but also the intense pressures of these communal…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 07 Oct 2004

A largely appealing drama, the kind of sports movie that anyone, even non-fans of football (like myself), can get wrapped up in and care about…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 06 Oct 2004

Profoundly upsetting and pointed in its criticism, it's concerned not just with football, but with the people who play it and the people it affects…

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