I'm sick of the simpering American morons who lap up this rubbish.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2010

Just when we thought John Malkovich didn't have another semi-intentionally deranged performance left in him, he has come storming back with another uproarious turn...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 2, 2010

Despite a decent performance from Lane as the homespun trainer, Secretariat is more blind alley than Blind Side.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2010

This tale of wealth, horse-breeding and good old Christian faith is just about as hammy as a study of commodified horse sex can be.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 2, 2010

This horsey, 1970s-set Disney film doesn't boast the most imaginative script and is too long and businesslike for youngsters -- yet it still produces a lump in the throat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2010

Watching Secretariat is an experience as antithetical to watching an actual horse race as it gets.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 13, 2010

My advice: If you're looking for a nostalgic, inspirational horse-race biopic that doesn't isolate itself completely from economic, historical, and racial reality, go rent Seabiscuit.

| Oct 9, 2010

Just how much you enjoy Secretariat, Disney's glossy-coated biopic of the celebrated racehorse, depends in large part on how much you know of his career. If you know zilch, you'll be thrilled.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

For those looking to, or through, Secretariat for a deeper, more sinister meaning, all I can say is, there are worse places to look for God than in the nostril of a great horse.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2010

Secretariat is a winner, but only by a few lengths.

| Original Score: B | Oct 8, 2010

Secretariat earns its best accolades for asking even larger questions as it highlights the story not just of a terrific horse but of his greatest champion, owner Penny Chenery, portrayed with grace, edge and a growing sense of self by Diane Lane.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

The racing scenes, easily the best thing in this otherwise uninspired piece of inspirationalism, come as a distinct relief.

| Original Score: C | Oct 8, 2010

The film seeks to honor the memory of the great racehorse, and it largely succeeds.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 8, 2010

When the movie climactically reproduces that exhilarating Belmont, the fiction is just a pale shadow of the fact, and the realized myth that lives in our memory dies on the screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2010

A finely constructed feel-good movie, gorgeous to look at, suspenseful when it's supposed to be and firmly in control of the sports movie archetypes and tropes that it wields like an experienced jockey using a riding crop.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 8, 2010

It's a pleasurable, seductive fantasy partly because, as we have known from the start of cinema, the sight of a running horse is a beautiful thing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Scarcely a scene goes by where Penny's savvy, grace, and generosity aren't explicitly cited by some character or another, often in the process of apologizing for not recognizing her visionary brilliance in the first place.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2010

This is an undeniably well-crafted genre piece.

| Oct 8, 2010

Secretariat" ultimately delivers where it matters, in the home stretch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Director Randall Wallace has achieved the next to impossible, injecting genuine tension and suspense into a narrative we all know the ending to.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2010