Any Given Sunday is the best-ever football movie because it’s actually about football, and not the other way around. It’s decorated with a black eye and grass stains, but it’s never afraid to get back in the huddle.

| Jun 15, 2022

Makes me feel as if I was concussed.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 26, 2022

Hard-hitting football drama has strong language, sex, drugs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2020

Oliver Stone's hyperkinetic, ultraviolent football epic distills America's most popular sport to its essence, adds caffeine, taurine, and guarana...

| Mar 26, 2019

After you've seen the first ten minutes, you could probably write out the plot yourself, beat by beat. But inside all that cliche is actually a very interesting, and very pertinent, vision of football.

| Oct 18, 2018

The film has an entirely compelling emptiness and exhaustion.

| Nov 28, 2017

A richly composed and well acted ensemble piece...

| Sep 27, 2014

Stone's blend of mayhem and sensuality-which doesn't shy away from the eroticism of athletes-is a refreshing alternative to the solemnity of most sports dramas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2014

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Stone isn't interested in merely bashing modern football: Any Given Sunday looks at the best and worst of the sport. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2009

...it's hard to tell if Stone was making a serious sports movie here or a parody of a sports movie.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 26, 2009

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Almost three hours of this jitter deteriorates from bravura filmmaking to annoying mannerism, and Any Given Sunday ends up less than the sum of its many, often interesting parts.

| Aug 22, 2008

Hit and miss, certainly, but intense stuff.

| Aug 22, 2008

You'd have to be a very undiscriminating football die-hard to get anything out of it.

| Original Score: D | Jul 23, 2007

With few surprises and little to say in this film, it is unclear why Oliver Stone was interested in making it in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

A meathead burlesque.

| Jun 24, 2006

Stone's hilariously broad and belabored critique of American sports culture ...

Full Review | Original Score: 74/100 | Mar 28, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

This isn't the best film by Oliver Stone, but it is a first-rate job nonetheless.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 9, 2005