Everything comes together in The Sandlot with perfection to deliver one of the best baseball movies in cinematic history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 13, 2024

...an amiable, irresistibly nostalgic drama...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2023

This is a fraudulent baseball film that's more cartoonish than real.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 30, 2023

At the very least, it serves as a reminder to always have a spare baseball handy any time you go out to play in the park in case it gets taken by an absurdly enormous dog over the fence.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 7, 2023

Here's another '90s movie that was beloved by boys ... yet it probably won't hold the same charge for viewers not privy to that nostalgic vibe.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2021

That's what The Sandlot repeatedly does: Confound your expectations. It's a charming and hilarious flick for kids (boys in particular will eat it up) that feels remarkably fresh, even during its occasional foray into cliché land.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2021

The Sandlot is a classic because so much of the film focuses on time spent off the field. It's not a movie about baseball players, it's a movie about kids who happen to play baseball.

| Jul 7, 2021

Utilizes effective editing, appropriately juvenile dialogue, and laugh-out-loud humor while capturing adolescent adventure with a genuine sense of innocence and nostalgia.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 24, 2020

The Sandlot isn't just a baseball movie, it's a bright, uncynical look back at the joys of childhood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2020

After a "Porky's"-style segment dealing with puppy lust, the film then segues to its better second half.

| May 30, 2019

The Sandlot is scene after scene after scene of nostalgia-glasses-viewed perfection.

| Apr 9, 2019

Those in the mood to return to the age of innocence might want to try The Sandlot.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2019

A scruffy underdog yarn that will appeal not only to kids but also to their thirty- or fortysomething parents.

| Apr 9, 2019

It throws a proverbial curveball at convention, relying instead on baseball's ultimate companion - nostalgia - to pluck its emotional and memorable strings.

| Oct 16, 2018

The Sandlot almost does for baseball what A Christmas Story does for the holiday season. Evans clearly can still feel what it was like to be a kid, and his silly impetuousness gives his film its charm.

| May 30, 2018

Though all but the two lead children are mediocre, the adult actors, including Karen Allen and James Earl Jones, are first- rate.

| Dec 12, 2017

Rarely has 101 minutes seemed longer.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 16, 2017

It's a bonafide masterpiece that warrants admiration, even two decades after its release.

| May 10, 2016

The Sandlot is just a fun, funny film that holds plenty of family appeal because it has a wholesome Norman Rockwell vibe and, as with any good sports film, you don't have to love the game to love the film.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 29, 2016

In The Sandlot's nostalgia for simpler times, a single-sex world seems to be a key component.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 7, 2014