Though it's a familiar plot about kids learning discipline and teamwork through sports, The Grizzlies is brought to life through the specifics that make the characters and their sense of place -- and of displacement -- central to the story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2020

It's exactly the type of uplifting movie that could boost spirits during these bleak times.

| Mar 20, 2020

Bracingly unsentimental and transcendently moving at the same time.

| Jan 10, 2019

It's a fascinating puzzle: a film that is simultaneously an indictment of the toxic legacy of cultural imperialism and a weepie that employs the familiar tropes of Hollywood, one of the biggest machines of cultural imperialism on the planet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2018