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

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

The kids even have their own treehouse, which means that the production designer is the only person connected with this project who actually went out on a limb.

| May 7, 2014

A solid double rather than a grand slam, The Sandlot remains a refreshing antidote to the daily round of contract squabbles on the sports page.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2014

There's a snappy change-of-pace gag involving a little guy and a nubile lifeguard, but the screams and barks and fraudulent emotions grow wearying.

Full Review | May 7, 2014

For every Field of Dreams there are a dozen lesser, completely incomprehensible baseball movies. This is one of them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2011

Sweet and sincere, the film is also a remarkably shallow wade, rife with incident and slim on substance.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

Ever since Stand by Me, it seems that every Boy's Own yarn is deemed incomplete without a nostalgic, pseudo-ironic voice-over waxing lyrical about the mythology of short pants and acne.

| Feb 9, 2006

Nothing about his modest coming-of-age comedy demands anything like this awestruck approach.

| Aug 30, 2004

This is a movie... that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult domains and values.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Older kids and overgrown ones too probably will notice that nothing much ever happens in this belabored suburban variation on The Little Rascals.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Sandlot is a movie with a comfortable working knowledge of the term "family entertainment."

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The Sandlot isn't well made but it's alive with dopey, summertime spirit.

| Jan 1, 2000

Old baseball wisdom: The best teams win with strong fundamentals. So do the best movies.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 1, 1993