It's one of those films that makes me realize just how much I love cinema.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 15, 2020

...the film's storyline follows an exceedingly familiar trajectory.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2005

There is one major difference between the two, however. Hoosiers is a fantastic movie, maybe the best sports-related motion picture ever made; Madison, quite simply, is not.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2005

As the clichs mount up, it's easy to see why the film has been waiting for a release since 2001.

| Apr 29, 2005

Madison only reinforces stereotypes that 'old-fashioned' and 'small-town' mean 'good' while 'modern' and 'big city' mean 'bad.'

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 26, 2005

You've seen a movie that has the exact same scene after scene and the sport's just been different.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2005

It is done with such sincerity and good feeling that I found myself far more interested in the proceedings that I could have possibly expected.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2005

Unembarrassed with its rah-rah populism, the movie is definitely anti-cynicism, and often quite enjoyable in its sincerity.

| Apr 22, 2005

Even though it's based on a true story, writer-director William Bindley and his cowriting brother, Scott, manage to squeeze just about every sports-movie clich ever invented into this tale.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 22, 2005

A touching, spirited family movie that, in the Rocky tradition, is about a sports challenge that represents the hopes and aspirations of characters with little reason to expect success.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2005

Direct, folksy, more than a bit boosterish, the movie pulls you along to the wow finish.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2005

Madison brings us the news that miracles really can happen, and an apparent case of divine intervention is the only reason this artifact is being dumped into theaters.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 22, 2005

There isn't a scene, an action or a character that rings true, yet the narrative summary of the events that inspired it is a matter of record.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 22, 2005

This one's a little soggy.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 22, 2005

What is it about Indiana that inspires movies about small-town dreamers who come from behind to win?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2005

Near-comic predictability, 'What else could go wrong?' plotting and cliche-ridden screenplay sink it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 21, 2005

The sport deserves a much better movie.

| Original Score: C | Apr 21, 2005

Neither Madison the town nor Madison the movie ever feels fully inhabited.

| Apr 21, 2005

Only moviegoers who care about nitrous-oxide injection systems or Madison itself are likely to appreciate it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 21, 2005

If not for the race sequences and the intriguing presence of Caviezel ... the film would amount to a well-intentioned snooze.

| Apr 21, 2005