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

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

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

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

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