Like Karate Kid -- without the karate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 15, 2010

...surprisingly inventive...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 31, 2008

The film's tone is indeed mystically propelled, but while these elements seem far fetched, the sheer depth of commitment by the cast make us overlook that.

| Mar 23, 2008

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2007

This is an average movie that's chock-full of New-Age-y self help. And not much else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2007

claims to be 'inspired by true events'; the movie does not, however, specify the planet on which these events allegedly took place. ... a perfect companion piece to last year's dim-witted 'Stick It'...

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 3, 2007

Warrior is a good-looking film that feels more like an allegory about the power of positive thinking than a drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 30, 2007

[A] watchable exercise in Zen hokum.

| Mar 30, 2007

You will not learn how to levitate to the roof of a service station. In fact, the answer to that part of the story is a lemon -- but you knew it would be, didn't you?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 23, 2007

The message is good, even if the delivery is repetitive, ham-handed and...equal parts disturbing and amusing.

| Feb 7, 2007

Only in filmmaker Victor Salva's world are impossibly chiseled, Abercrombie-ready gymnasts worshipped by their peers on college campuses and in adjoining dive bars.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 2, 2006

Works overtime to inspire audiences, but relies way too much on pop-mysticism and half-baked artifice to make its point stick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Maybe there are worthy films buried in collections of spiritual homilies, but Peaceful Warrior is not one of them.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 6, 2006

Admittedly, I suspected it might be kind of cheesy, but the film is directed with great grace and care. And the acting is solid. It's a beautiful film -- see it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 30, 2006

Don't go see Peaceful Warrior. Don't tell your friends about it. Try to forget you ever heard of the movie. Clear your mind and live in the now.

| Original Score: D | Jul 28, 2006

A movie about spiritual awakening that plays like a spliced-together string of New Age fortune cookie messages.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

The kind of metaphysical nonsense that gives New Age a bad name.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Peaceful Warrior is an inspirational story of the making of a true athlete. It's a bit hokey but you get by that whenever [Nick] Nolte is on the screen.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 23, 2006

Starting with the title and extending everywhere else, Peaceful Warrior is blatantly ludicrous.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 22, 2006

It's the director's willingness to toughen conventions through personal idiosyncrasies that sets the film apart.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2006