The overlong runtime (loosely encompassing the benchmarks of the real-life symbol of hope) definitely doesn’t help in building toward a thrilling climax.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 6, 2025

Twenty years after its theatrical release, Seabiscuit remains one of the best sports dramas to grace the screen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Seabiscuit remains the best movie ever made about the world of horse racing.

| May 19, 2023

The greatest horse racing movie of all-time.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 29, 2022

Director Ross, his team of technicians, and performers (including 10 portraying the title character) made one of the greatest sports (and family friendly) films of all-time which will quite easily double for some as the light at the end of many tunnels.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2022

The film is being pulled along at every instant by the gravitational force of its inevitable heartwarming and cathartic conclusion.

| Feb 16, 2021

Seabiscuit is a sports film with a heart, featuring great race sequences and a wonderful story.

| Nov 16, 2019

While not as epic as one might think given the studio build-up, Seabiscuit is nevertheless destined to become a classic.

| Nov 15, 2019

A high-quality telling of the inspirational true story behind America's own Phar Lap, an equine powerhouse that became a hero of the Depression era.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 14, 2019

Seabiscuit starts slow, finishes fast, not an eye without a tear, not a throat without a lump. It jumps out of the gate as a front-runner in the race for Hollywood's Triple Crown: best actor, best direction and best picture.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 5, 2018

promises filet mignon, only to deliver oats and hay

| Original Score: C | May 19, 2013

An inspiring story for teens and up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

It's inspiring despite a sobering thesis: The future is intoxicating, but progress is a kind way of rendering someone's livelihood obsolete. Gary Ross probed the underdog principle's heart: Success outside the comfort zone is the sweetest of all.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2010

Writer-director Ross's true-believer American salesmanship%u2014inspired by Frank Capra and honed in Dave and Pleasantville--suits this story of American entrepreneurship, optimism, and resilience. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2009

Becomes a tale about beating the odds, the triumph of competition, and how one small animal can bring a nation together to forget its miseries.

| Apr 29, 2009

Respectable when it should be thrilling, honorable when it should be rough and ready.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2008

[It] may be too airbrushed for its own good, but in the end nothing can stop this story from putting a lump in your throat.

| Nov 1, 2007

Not a work of great art, but it tells its solid story with grace and dignity.

| Original Score: B | Aug 18, 2007

We root for Seabiscuit, of course, but more out of obligation than devotion -- after all, we paid to see him.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

I found this film stultifyingly self-important and, despite the regularity with which it cuts to the chase, weirdly static.

| Mar 26, 2007