Draft Day is ridiculous NFL pulp. It’s outlandish that a movie exists about the NFL Draft, but it’s hard not to get swept away with how shameless this film is to entertain.

| Oct 26, 2024

Rest assured, thanks to his endless versatility and charm, Costner proves again that he is a comfortable and lifting presence to any sports film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2024

The story is crisp and exciting...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

While Ivan Reitman's a master of comedy, he fails to bring the necessary sense of urgency to a ticking-tock drama that's already hurt by a predictable script that lacks the thoughtfulness of Moneyball.

| Jan 22, 2022

Draft Day might bypass realism for drama but it's still a fun watch.

| Jun 21, 2021

...you'll need at least a passing interest in American football or this film will come across like a soap set in the world of a technically impenetrable sport.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2021

Reitman combines his deep dive into the NFL's inside baseball perspective with the cheerful allures of crowd-pleasing entertainments.

| Apr 29, 2021

Story wise this is a pure sports film, complete with lingo and all kinds of stats, but it's also a mystery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The film could have easily been a one-note sports flick, but it possesses a genuinely good spirit.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

A richly textured character study not only about a man and those around him, but about character, ethics and integrity...and yes, character does count.

| Dec 14, 2019

Draft Day is never surprising with its deliberate pace and conventional narrative choices. Inevitably, it becomes a convenient, cornball cliché.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Though not as incompetent as the majority of its characters for a film that begins with a countdown on "a day where lives are changed and fates are decided", Draft Day presents bafflingly little tension and precious little point.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2019

Despite the overall acting and the less-than-compelling subplot involving Sonny's personal life, the film is terrific. It's smart, engaging, uplifting. It's great for all ages.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 3, 2018

While some the broad strokes of the story may be fairly easy to call out fairly early on, it packs in enough "what's gonna happen?" suspense to make the eventual third act payoff worth hanging in there for.

| Original Score: B | Nov 2, 2018

Anyone looking for a lot of hard-hitting football highlights will be better off spending their time with NFL films and John Facenda.

| Nov 22, 2017

Kevin Costner's unexpected comeback continues with this surprisingly fine sports jam in the vein of Moneyball-it's not about the meal, it's about how the sausage gets made.

| Mar 10, 2017

As movies go, Draft Day is the equivalent of an 8-8 NFL team. Maybe even a 7-9. It is sporadically interesting, and suggests that it is worth sticking around for the final play. But there's no guarantee you will be satisfied with the outcome.

| Mar 2, 2017

We've seen lots of this type of Art of the Deal maneuvering-how GMs spread gossip, bait and switch, gamble, and haggle each other. It never gets old. It's also the best part.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2016

This is a very American film that - not unlike Moneyball - attempts to expand its appeal by doubling down on its focus on the very American sport at hand so as to find the universal themes intrinsic to the game.

| Original Score: B | Jun 6, 2016

For all of the typical sports movie clichs that pop up in "Draft Day," the pic's place as an NFL-sanctioned puff piece is what's most alarming.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2016