Deeply personal and extraordinarily insightful.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

Tweens in Go-Karts race for glory in lively docu.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2015

It's impossible to watch these kids struggle in their daily life and not have some rooting interest in their on-track success.

| Original Score: 65/100 | Jul 12, 2011

NASCAR enthusiast or not, it's a universally touching and charming film with the power to capture the heart of any viewer.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Curry's impressionable, charismatic young subjects are impossible not to care about.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2010

That said, Racing Dreams is one of the rare documentaries you leave wishing it was a little bit longer.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 9, 2010

Revealing portrait of 3 very different young people intensely focused on being champions, and the impact of their determination on their devoted families (and vice versa).

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 9, 2010

If nothing else the racing scenes -- which look terrific, crisp and colorful, like the rest of the film -- will help the childless get in touch with their inner hysterical mother.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jul 8, 2010

At the end of the film's 93 minutes Curry could have invited me to a frog-sexing competition and I'd have happily signed on.

| Jul 8, 2010

Marshall Curry's sleek documentary captures the second-hand thrill of watching tweens hurtle at 70 mph around a blacktop, as it follows three potential superkarters over the course of a single season.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2010

Directed by Marshall Curry (whose "Street Fight," about a corrupt Newark mayoral race, nabbed an Academy Award nomination), the perceptively balanced "Dreams" transitions seamlessly from domestic drama to 70-mph heats.

| Jul 6, 2010

Curry documents the huge pressure placed on these children not only to succeed on the track, but to raise the money needed to continue.

| Jul 6, 2010

The journey is thrilling -- even if, on some level, you know that these kids are going in circles.

| Jul 5, 2010

Nicely captures the milieu of, and the action in, the Go-Kart racing world.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 29, 2010

Curry has expertly stitched together a 90-minute triumph in crowd-pleasing, wholesome entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2010

[Director Marshall] Curry, who received an Academy Award for his 2005 documentary Street Fight, captures the pulse pounding excitement of the races throughout the multi-state series.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2010

Marshall Curry's documentary about three bright, personable youngsters who dream of becoming professional NASCAR drivers is simultaneously a feel-good celebration of youthful optimism and a sobering reminder that not all dreams come true.

| May 24, 2010

A Spellbound or Mad Hot Ballroom for the NASCAR set, Racing Dreams ends up speeding past its niche market and working its magic on anyone with a rooting interest in the dreams and ambitions of this country's youth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2010

Reveals a fascinating subculture that is unknown to most moviegoers, where tweens with a need for speed can spend up to 48 weekends a year behind the wheel...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2010

Even if you consider NASCAR itself a bore, you'll find this snapshot of what's often called its version of Little League compulsively watchable.

| Original Score: B+ | May 20, 2010