It is flashy, stylish, and perceptive.

| Original Score: B | May 10, 2024

Easily the best film about sports since Moneyball and a complete slam dunk for Soderbergh who is having a much more significant and successful return from retirement than Michael Jordan!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2022

As a filmmaker who likes to tackle a variety of subjects in a variety of different ways, this is a movie right up Soderbergh’s alley.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

More than the cast or even Soderbergh's direction, McCraney's writing is the star of the show.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Episode 30: Capernaum / The Red Riding Trilogy / High Flying Bird

| Original Score: 86/100 | Sep 9, 2021

You may not be smart enough to grasp everything the film is trying to say, but Steven Soderbergh and Tarell Alvin McCraney get points just for putting them out into the world.

| Mar 25, 2021

High Flying Bird is much colder, at times even clinical, and it's more interested in the long-term work of resistance than heist plots and celebrations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2021

This movie is razor sharp.

| Feb 9, 2021

It's a timely tale that strongly advocates for a more fair and equitable workplace yet it only engages in fits and starts.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

High Flying Bird has few likable characters...Soderbergh should know better. Why is he promoting and arguing for these big and little entrepreneurs?

| Aug 5, 2020

It's a movie with good intentions, but his sense of urgency is lost like a ball off the court. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 28, 2020

Ultra-talky, sports-insider drama of power and celebrity, involving even for the uninitiated.

| Jun 26, 2020

This intriguing, if erratic drama is sure to be prominent on the feeds of... who love their sports.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2020

This is a film rich with ideas and discussion points, including black entrepreneurship, and the tangled racial history of a country intertwined with a sport that is supposed to offer people of colour a sense of 'freedom'.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 6, 2020

High Flying Bird is [Soderbergh's] anarchist's cookbook for besting capitalist systems and getting narratives out into the light that they would keep in darkness.

| Jan 18, 2020

In typical Soderbergh fashion, High Flying Bird is a film about basketball featuring no games of basketball, and a thriller that derives its suspense from the fast-paced, rhythmic dialogue of Tarrel Alvin McCraney.

| Jan 13, 2020

A thoughtful, cerebral entry in this black renaissance period.

| Original Score: B | Dec 12, 2019

Soderbergh's liveliest, most big-thinking work since Magic Mike, this is a quick, zingy, all-business sports drama that plays like Jerry Maguire with twin degrees in economics and sociology.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2019

Directed, shot, and edited by Steven Soderbergh, this cerebral Netflix original is an even more incisive drama about the business of sports than Moneyball.

| Dec 11, 2019

The script is fantastic... It plays almost like an Ocean's 11 movie.

| Dec 11, 2019