Shooting Stars is a mostly low-key and thoughtful portrait. Director Chris Robinson has a deft touch with the on-court scenes and handles the relationships and drama equally well.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 14, 2024

This movie is similar to other sports-centered biographical dramas, but it is different in that LeBron James, and even basketball itself, both are benched in favor of showing how friendship, teamwork and family help people overcome life's challenges.

| Original Score: B | Nov 17, 2023

A most conventional 온라인카지노추천 film... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2023

With James’ Springhill Company behind the movie, we only see the sweet friendships, the glory of victory, and of course, James’ iconic celebrity. Too bad a lay-up of a biography isn’t interesting at all.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 15, 2023

Every moment and image is so perfectly shaped and presented, and rings so true, that you can imagine the same story being told, beat-for-beat, with a cast of invented characters and being every bit as satisfying.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 9, 2023

Shooting Stars is more than just a retelling of LeBron’s inspiring rise to fame and basketball prowess. At its core, this film is about friendship, cherishing those bonds, and growing up.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jun 9, 2023

Even as it struggles to maintain a rhythm with its narrative, the film is engaging enough to recommend, thanks largely to Cook and his on-screen teammates.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 6, 2023

Unfortunately, LeBron James is the least interesting part of this LeBron James origin story... But this is a nice, inspiring film.

| Jun 6, 2023

Unfortunately, Shooting Stars’ resistance to hagiography is about the only thing refreshing about it.

| Jun 5, 2023

Shooting Stars is exactly the movie you’d expect about LeBron James... It’s not going to the Hall of Fame for basketball movies, but it’s just good enough to eke out a win in the end.

| Jun 5, 2023

Basically “It takes a village to raise an all-star,” it’s a familiar B-level sports story about the strains of success buoyed only slightly by its talented young cast.

| Jun 5, 2023

While it doesn’t do anything new or original, it’s able to set itself apart from other basketball movies and make you care for the characters it puts on screen.

| Jun 5, 2023

The biggest thing that Shooting Stars has going against it is that there’s already a better movie out there about this subject,

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2023

This adaptation of Lebron James’s and Buzz Bissinger’s 2009 book would have done better as a six-to-eight-hour limited series. There’s a compelling story here, but this version isn’t it.

| Jun 3, 2023

Shooting Stars is an entertaining docudrama that rarely digs beneath the surface but serves as a bright and inspirational reminder of a time when basketball was the glue forging a bond.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2023

As interesting look at James’ early brushes with fame, this film suffers from an overlong running time and focus on minutia.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 2, 2023

Shooting Stars has its moments, but I have to imagine this was more memorable as prose than as training montage.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jun 2, 2023

It’s stubbornly undramatic.

| Jun 2, 2023

What could've been a vanity project of idolatry for the King is instead a selfless celebration of his childhood friends, feeling less like a ball hog and more like teamwork passing the ball around to take the open shot, which doesn’t swish but rattles in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2023

A potent tale of boyhood camaraderie. Universal should have given this a theatrical release.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 2, 2023