An inspiring story for teens and up.

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

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

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

| Mar 26, 2007

For a film about an unfancied underdog, Seabiscuit is just far too pleased with itself.

| Jun 24, 2006

Watching this movie, you get the feeling that the Depression existed so that Seabiscuit could be memorialized.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

It tells such a good story in such a cleverly old-fashioned way that you go along with practically everything.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2004

Wonderfully lovely and uplifting. Ross could be accused of over-egging the pudding, but a yarn this handsome, heartwarming and thrilling can't lose.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2003

What should lift your spirit only threatens to eject your lunch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2003

In the structure of his screenplay Ross has taken a risk, and he has not quite brought it off.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2003

[Seabiscuit] clicks on all cylinders as a technical achievement in re-creating a piece of racetrack history, though its larger sociological statements are more than a little overblown and oversimplified.

| Aug 6, 2003

Ross restores the good name of crowd-pleasing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2003

Taking a cue from the horse in question, Ross' film takes its time getting into the race, but once it gets going, the going gets good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2003

Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit is for the ages. Ross' version is designed to last only until the next Oscar season rolls around.

| Jul 26, 2003

Brings every underdog theme out of the stable, making a movie with familiar themes seem as handsome as a thoroughbred, albeit one that has trouble in the homestretch.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 26, 2003

Writer/director Gary Ross' movie isn't grand, but it's very good.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2003

Like a Ken Burns documentary relieved of the burden of accuracy, this is history as a warm bath you slip into for a while before stepping back into the chill of the present.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2003

Its likable cast makes up for any shortcomings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2003

A faithful, loving piece of work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2003

Even told in an overinflated, overexplicit way, the story still has a kick.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2003