The film that exists may fill in some temporary vacuum in a season without capacity-level crowds on Saturday nights and evenings. But those who want something more may have to wait a little longer.

| Original Score: C | Dec 12, 2020

Even with its clear weaknesses, Safety is an uplifting film about the unbreakable bonds in communities and teams, and between brothers.

| Dec 11, 2020

This fact-based Disney+ movie presents a story that's stirring enough to predictably eke across the goal line as an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser, even if it's playing on a venue without crowds.

| Dec 11, 2020

A good movie, with a good heart, even though you don't trust the screenplay.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 11, 2020

Overly sentimental traps line the plot of the film... But it scores points for giving its lead characters complicated situations, emotional depth and political dimension.

| Dec 11, 2020

That McElrathbey's life doesn't fit the mold of your average inspiring sports movie is a good thing because it allows "Safety" to show that winning off the field is much more important than on.

| Dec 10, 2020

The family pic's light tone never lets its themes of addiction, abandonment and poverty hit home, instead focusing on its hero's unlikely accomplishment and the brotherhood of sport.

| Dec 9, 2020

Reginald Hudlin delivers laughs and a few tears in this reality-based sports melodrama about a brother's devotion.

| Dec 9, 2020