October Sky Reviews
| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011
Inspiring tale for older tweens and up.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 26, 2010
The 온라인카지노추천 movie subject matter is infused with genuine feeling for the value of learning as a passport to freedom, and an authentic regard for the honest graft of working men.
| Jan 26, 2006
Retreads the soggy ground staked out by Field of Dreams, with sentimental tears and group hugs as the answer to conflicting ideological standpoints.
| Dec 2, 2002
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002
Another Universal Pictures paint-by-numbers feel-gooder!
| Jan 1, 2000
A must-see for every student, parent and teacher in the country!
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
One of the best in recent years!
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
October Sky is a sensational character-driven story with a strong narrative and great visual style.
| Jan 1, 2000
It is a film that treats its teen-aged hero and his pals as distinctive, sentient human beings.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Immensely entertaining and unabashedly inspirational!
Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
A professionally crafted family film that reserves all its challenging moments for its characters, letting the audience bask comfortably in the approach of a predetermined warm and fuzzy ending.
| Jan 1, 2000
Sweetness is too rare in movies these days, so audiences can feel lucky about the earnest dose of it in October Sky. This film is family.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000
This movie has deep values.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000
As adapted by Lewis Colick, the screenplay shifts busily among the boys' rocket exploits, Homer's family, conditions at the mine and the influence of a dedicated science teacher, but each of these subplots plays out in familiar ways.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000
There's hope, heroism, and Dern as a dying schoolmarm, but October Sky falls flat due to its all-too-obvious third act and the vague fact that, really, not that much happens.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000
| Original Score: B | Feb 19, 1999