Never has an underdog film been so boring, trite, and wholly uninspiring.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 24, 2020

The Final Season hits one out of the park!

| Nov 16, 2019

...manages to overcome the entirely underwhelming nature of its first act.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2008

Heartwarming-but-trite drama for baseball fans.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2007

Most of the townspeople are archetypes. In fact, you get the feeling the town is populated by character actors and not real people.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 20, 2007

An exciting family picture, worthy of viewing, if only for the warm-fuzzy feeling.

| Original Score: B | Oct 20, 2007

...strictly pro forma.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2007

It never hits a home run. But "Final Season," an adequate movie about an above-average baseball team, isn't a loser, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2007

Other than what happens on the playing field in 'The Final Season,' there's not much else going on.

| Oct 16, 2007

Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2007

The tagline should be changed from How Do You Want To Be Remembered, to How Do You Want To Be Forgotten? You will find yourself forgetting too!

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 14, 2007

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 13, 2007

Stereotypes are meant to exalt small-town values, but The Final Season is proof that it's hard to paint masterpiece in broad strokes.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 12, 2007

It moves along at a brisk pace, the ball games are skillfully done and its point about the need for local decisions -- like the closing a school -- to be made at the local level is a point well made.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Ever notice that sports movies that mean to inspire us with the message that winning isn't everything almost always end up with a victory?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Perhaps if Disney had gotten their hands on it, The Final Season would have gotten the spitball polish it needs.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Why is it enjoyable to watch sporting events depicted when we know how the games will end -- how they have to end? Where does the tension come from? Why do we care when we know already?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2007

So relentlessly earnest and maudlin it makes Hoosiers look like a Martin Scorsese film, The Final Season is the latest and worst sports-themed underdog story to get the big screen treatment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Belying the claim there's no longer any truth in advertising, The Final Season is exactly the formulaic, by-the-numbers movie it appears to be. These Tigers deserved better.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Remarkably, the movie rights itself once the actual season begins, focusing on game strategy more than the usual heart-stopping pep talks.

| Oct 12, 2007