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

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

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

| Mar 16, 2011

Too idiosyncratic and witty merely to wallow in sentimentality, Field Of Dreams will surely stand as a classic update of what made Old Hollywood so magical. It's still a wonderful life.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 16, 2011

Instant baseball classic for whole family.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

The life-equals-baseball masterpiece still packs an unexpected kick.

| Nov 3, 2007

Field of Dreams sustains a dreamy mood in which the idea of baseball is distilled to its purest essence: a game that stands for unsullied innocence in a cruel, imperfect world.

| Mar 21, 2007

The conception is sentimental, but the storytelling remains assured and effective.

| Mar 21, 2007

Together with moments of dry humour and fine performances, the political element lends the film gravity sufficient to counterbalance any sense of whimsy. Pure magic.

| Jan 26, 2006

It seems much easier to fall into Field of Dreams than to resist its warm, intelligent, timely appeal to our most idealistic selves.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

The themes of this movie are dreams, family, and baseball.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2002

A dedicated cast acts out this gooey fable in deadly earnest.

| May 13, 2001

Poesy, pointlessness and baseball worship aside, the movie is easy to get along with.

| Jan 1, 2000

The movie may steal a base here and there, but there are no homers.

| Jan 1, 2000

Field of Dreams will not appeal to grinches and grouches and realists. It is a delicate movie, a fragile construction of one goofy fantasy after another. But it has the courage to be about exactly what it promises.

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