Playing out like Remember The Titans for basketball fans, Glory Road is yet another would-be inspirational true story that follows sports-movie conventions.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel.

| Mar 25, 2008

Trying to make a sports movie for the entire family is understandable, but it makes a complicated story like Glory Road feel more like Disney than reality.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

An underdog sports movie by the numbers.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 27, 2006

Glory Road is a rousing and worthy tribute to one of the most important college basketball teams and one of the most important championship games of all time.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2006

Glory Road really isn't a bad show - it's just an obvious one - and one wishes material of this historical import had received a more refined rendering.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 15, 2006

Only a few quibblers are going to point out that Glory Road takes a fantastic real story and muddles it with sloppy storytelling that fails to trust the source material

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 14, 2006

An appealing Disney sports movie that underplays its potential, Glory Road is at least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's Coach Carter.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 13, 2006

Lacking the gritty reality of the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, this Jerry Bruckheimer film, directed by newcomer James Gartner, converts a year in the life of a basketball team into a very conventional triumph of the underdogs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2006

OK, so you really don't need me to tell you about Glory Road if you've ever seen a sports movie before. Just get out your sports-movie-cliché checklist and a pencil.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2006

Glory Road abandons the clinical and compelling storytelling of the great recent Disney hockey movie Miracle, and aims instead for the contrived sentimentality of the slightly less great Remember the Titans.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2006

As Coach Haskins would say, it wins because it sticks to the fundamentals.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 13, 2006

Glory Road is a pure Hollywood fantasy. As movie fiction, however, I guess it is entertaining enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 13, 2006

It's a well-trod path, this 'via de basketball,' but Glory Road makes it worth the trip.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 13, 2006

If the facts of the story are essentially true, their presentation is as formulaic as ever.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2006

Glory Road is a can't-lose slam dunk of a movie, the sort of film that charges right over its minor flaws thanks to good intentions, fine execution and a breathless air of excitement.

| Original Score: B | Jan 13, 2006

All involved with the project play the game with enthusiasm and purpose, which is all we really require from a committed team and an affirmative movie like this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2006

While Bruckheimer and Co. stretch the gospel theme too far and leave no emotional waypoint unmarked, Glory Road largely works.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2006

A well-meaning movie that slides downhill like a runaway ball of cheese.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 13, 2006