The end result may be highly unusual and untraditionally un-cinematic, but it’s nevertheless sweet and touching, embellished with moments of effective humor and stirring sentimentality.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 8, 2024

A wonderful, sentimental tribute to father-son relationships everywhere and the lovely game of baseball. A sports classic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 1, 2022

The maximum pleasure offered here is seeing how far the delirium of the original book can reach... winning my admiration. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2022

Situated somewhere between third base and The Twilight Zone, "Field of Dreams" is a modern-day fairy tale about a noble quest for a grand design.

| Aug 13, 2021

...a deliberately-paced yet progressively absorbing drama...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2021

"Field of Dreams" resonated so powerfully with people wishing for a return to traditional values, plus confirmation that parallel dimensions, karma, and clairvoyance exist, that the actual movie-set field in Iowa became a major tourist attraction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2020

Field of Dreams is baseball perfection.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 21, 2020

This is a story about passion, not just for baseball, but also a passion to do something with our one precious life even if people think it's crazy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 24, 2020

It's hard to imagine a cynicism so hardened that it won't crumble at the sight of a lush green baseball field nestled into an Iowa cornfield and at this movie's final inspiring scene of youth and innocence recaptured.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 3, 2018

In Costner, writer-director Robinson has found the perfect player for a personal-stakes game, a guy with a leg-it-out intensity and kidlike enthusiasm. It's Costner's eye-on-the-ball exuberance that carries Dreams past its often mechanical aesthetic.

| Apr 21, 2017

... view baseball as much a business as a sport and can't imagine getting gushy over such mush.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 4, 2015

If you like to think of every time at bat as a new hope, if you can taste a kind of poetry along with the hot dogs they serve at the ballpark, if you like to imagine that life is meant to be good, and miracles aren't out of the question... go see [it].

| Jun 27, 2015

Rightfully a ballgame classic, this is sentimental nonsense, sure, but charmingly so.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2014

This fantasy drama from director Phil Alden Robinson is a delightful blend of the blind-fate story and the more fanciful feel-good corn of Frank Capra.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2014

Field of Dreams isn't a home run. It's more like a suicide squeeze: if it hadn't been perfectly executed, it wouldn't have worked. But as they say in baseball, a run is a run.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 6, 2014

Alden's script goes from charming to preposterous to preachy.

Full Review | May 6, 2014

All of this would work better if Robinson built up the reality of the town more, made the citizens a more palpable presence, as Frank Capra did in Hollywood's greatest fable-fantasy, It's a Wonderful Life.

| Mar 20, 2013

The sentimentality, of which there is plenty, is nicely balanced by a humor of ironic pragmatism, as when Ray, having built his baseball field as a monument to human dreams, decides to charge tourists $20 a head to visit it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2013

[A] special experience, sort of an It's a Wonderful Life for the late '80s.

| Mar 20, 2013

Despite a lovely cameo turn by Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams is the male weepie at its wussiest.

| Mar 16, 2011