| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

A deafness-inducing but otherwise ho-hum would-be expose of shady recruiting practices by college basketball programs.

Full Review | Mar 25, 2008

Not even an unsentimental basketball fan like director William Friedkin can wash away all the corn syrup.

| Mar 25, 2008

This hard-hitting college basketball drama marks a notable return to form for William Friedkin.

| Jun 24, 2006

If Mr. Friedkin didn't have to work so strenuously framing two-shots of Mr. Nolte with this seven-foot athlete, it might be hard to remember that Mr. O'Neal has a day job.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

If it wasn't for some exciting roundball action, Shaquille O'Neal's hulking-dunking presence and a wonderfully guttural performance from coach Nick Nolte, you'd slither off the bench asleep.

| Jan 1, 2000

The filmmakers don't get the ball into the Shaq-man's hands enough -- both literally and figuratively -- to make this personable giant's screen debut memorable.

| Jan 1, 2000

Much of the movie's problem, I suspect, comes from the vast use of non-professionals in dramatic roles, whose charismatic abilities should be restricted to the basketball court and not the dramatic arena.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

What Friedkin brings to the story is a tone that feels completely accurate; the movie is a morality play, told in the realistic, sometimes cynical terms of modern high-pressure college sports.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 18, 1994