Over 35 years after its release, the hysterical Major League remains one of the best baseball movies ever made.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 25, 2024

It's hard to believe that this fun, creative film is turning thirty years old but it still stands the test of time and is a joy to watch.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 4, 2019

Amiable but predictable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2016

Ward directs his actors as adroitly as he has written for them, and the vulnerability that he allows his three stars to reveal is really what makes the movie work.

| May 6, 2014

It skims along agreeable surfaces, expertly balancing its comedy with melodrama and fulfilling expectations right on schedule.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2014

Sheen, as an ace fireball pitcher called Wild Thing by the adoring fans, is excellent; so is Bernsen as a star-struck third baseman, whose portfolio is more important that a hard grounder in the hole.

| Mar 20, 2013

It has its moments, but it also has long, slow stretches where you feel like standing up and wandering around and maybe going out to hunt up a beer. That's fine for baseball, but it's not the way movies are supposed to work.

| Mar 20, 2013

Somebody should tell Ward that winning isn't everything. Character is. And this is what his movie lacks.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2013

If you're looking for sophisticated wit keep going, but Major League is pleasant, undemanding fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2011

Major League doesn't try too hard or aim too high, but it is pretty funny.

| Mar 16, 2011

The absurdity of the Indians winning the pennant in 1989 helped make the film a lot of fun, and it was a great little fantasy for Tribe fans back in the day.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 23, 2009

A meat and potatoes '80s movie, that maybe doesn't 'taste great,' but at least is 'less filling.' [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 24, 2009

Even though too many jokes fall flat under the weight of predictability, its sheer comic energy manages to entertain.

| Aug 1, 2008

Sometimes funny comedy set in major league baseball with plenty of bawdy slapstick.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2008

Major League holds up today not only as the rare sports-themed comedy to balance goofiness and dynamic game atmospherics seamlessly, but also as a fleeting reminder of baseball's last remnants of participatory charm and gee-whiz curveball worship.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 8, 2007

timeless

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 5, 2007

Consider Ward's comic framework and Major League is a top-tier baseball film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2007

Slick predictability is about all it has in mind, down to the last trite freeze-frame.

| Mar 14, 2007

Writer-director David Ward has provided Cleveland Indian fans with something to cheer about and moviegoers with a generally engaging baseball comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2007

For sheer crowd-pleasing fun it belts one high into the left-field bleachers.

| Mar 14, 2007