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

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

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

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

| Mar 14, 2007

What redeems it is that the action sequences are superbly filmed, climaxing with Sheen's bullish entry into the arena at make-or-break time, the crowd singing 'Wild Thing' in clamouring unison.

| Jun 24, 2006

The film is so loopy that it glides over its cliches and indulges in some congenial movie-baseball silliness.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Shamelessly formulaic.

| Jan 1, 2000