The real strength of this film lies in its tremendous cast of character actors led by Toni Collette and Damian Lewis.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

It is only a supposed telling as it is primarily built around, at best, shallow re-creations, and, at worst, an active jettisoning of what should have been its most compelling aspects.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2022

A good drama that has the misfortune of coming after a fascinating documentary. Dark Horse will be the place to go to hear the story from those it happened to, but taken on its own merits this is the light, feel-good movie many of us might need this year.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2022

The movie manages to be exactly what you would expect based on its logline, but it fulfills every expectation with crowd-pleasing confidence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

A feel-good Sunday watch, bolstered by the excellent and ever-underrated Collette.

| Feb 12, 2022

Dream Horse is the type of feel-good, family film that we desperately need more of. A story of hope and perseverance, Dream Horse is a fist-pumping, heart-pounding joy to behold. I found myself smiling from ear-to-ear on more than one occasion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2022

Parents complain ad nauseam about the lack of suitable family fare, yet patronize comic book blow-outs, animated retreads and other effects-laden misfires. 'Dream Horse' is everything they could want: drama, uplift, comedy, and Toni Collette. Any takers?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2021

Euros Lyn's unashamedly schmaltzy film is based on a true story and it is heart-warming, feel-good and family friendly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Cheese is its key ingredient.

| Aug 11, 2021

Rousingly uplifting.

| Aug 10, 2021

The film by Euros Lyn is not a tricky one in that it gives you exactly what it promises to.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 8, 2021

Dream Horse isn't a bad film, just plain and mawkish. Its heart is in the right place, but horsey people will tell you that it takes more than that to win a race.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2021

This unapologetically uplifting feel-good flick is a clever combo of the only-at-the-races and the only-in-the-movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2021

Dream Horse sticks to a familiar sentimental course, but its off-kilter humour and a strong cast led by Toni Collette prove a winning combination.

| Original Score: B-plus | Aug 6, 2021

This is a small, sentimental and straightforward film that offers little in the way of surprises. Instead, it wins on heart and a simple message about the value in fighting to keep one's dreams alive.

| Aug 4, 2021

Unlikely but true, the charm of this tale of a champion racehorse has everything to do with its tapestry of small town Welsh life and the low key characters who backed a winner

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2021

Going against the odds, the song and the familiar story cross the finish line in happy style.

| Jul 16, 2021

It's impossible to ignore the buttons the movie keeps gleefully pushing, and the parts of the tale that must've been smoothed out to elicit the desired cheer-inducing response - even around Collette's committed performance.

| Jul 9, 2021

Dream Horse is so stuffed full of sentimentality that it's almost impossible to consume.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 22, 2021

The small-town underdog story is an audience favorite that has worked for centuries, but Dream Horse's total aversion to risk or drama leaves it in the dust among its many similar-themed companions.

| Jun 16, 2021