I love a good sports movie. There's a formula to them, which this film actually went a bit against. I really enjoyed the historical accuracy of how they used to play basketball in the '50s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2025

Strong performances by Hackman and Hopper but there were some storylines (mainly the love story) that didn't work for me.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2025

Dennis Hopper was totally clean and sober at this point in his life, and with that clarity and his practice in sense memory he could tap into his own experiences to make Shooter a real, fleshed-out human being.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 23, 2022

There are quite a number of practicing and shooting and gameplay montages, but it's actually the character interactions that remain most stirring.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 2, 2022

[UPDATED 2025 REVIEW] Much of its appeal comes courtesy of Gene Hackman, whose work here -- a canny mix of aw-shucks bluster and below-the-surface slyness -- was a warm-up for the career-best performance he would deliver in 1988's Mississippi Burning.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 7, 2021

This film has so much heart. Every time I watch it, I am on the verge of tears for almost the entire runtime.

| Original Score: A | Feb 17, 2021

Hoosiers benefits from David Anspaugh's experience as a 온라인카지노추천 director, from the soundtrack, and the performances. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 26, 2020

Hoosier certainly qualifies [as a great sports moive].

| Jun 28, 2019

An enjoyable, if conventional and manipulative small-town sports melodrama, boasting strong turns from Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper, who received his only acting nomination for his part.

| Original Score: B | Apr 22, 2012

A tale of heroic sportsmanship.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 2, 2011

The filmmakers are at the top of their game.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 29, 2008

Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger.

| Aug 1, 2008

The setting in early 1950s Indiana adds nice texture to the story, but the endless games with the usual ups and downs outstay their welcome.

| Mar 24, 2008

Shameless, yes, but open your eyes, close your mind, sit back and enjoy.

| Mar 21, 2007

Bobby Knight would not be amused, though Tark the Shark might've had a good laugh at the naive masquerade.

| Mar 21, 2007

Basketball movies don't get any better.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2007

It should come as little surprise that this solid, sentimental movie about basketball is set in Indiana, where babies are given roundballs before they get rattles.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2007

Pic belongs to Hackman, but Dennis Hopper gets another opportunity to put in a showy turn as a local misfit.

| Mar 21, 2007

Barely a single frame of this movie is less than compelling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

Cloyingly nostalgic.

| Feb 9, 2006