It’s sweet, earnest and honest.

| Nov 20, 2024

The movie’s story is cliché and rather preachy, but it isn’t bad. Rickey’s story is important and engaging… whenever viewers aren’t being weighed down by the pastor’s repetitive prejudice against his family and community.

| Jan 22, 2024

As the stadium lights fade on a reconciled father and son like “Field of Dreams,” you can’t help but smile. Yes, it’s a “perfect” Hollywood ending, but call me a sucker for inspirational sports flicks. Turn off your brain and tap into your heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2023

A true hero story. The fact that it's a little too long clearly hasn't bothered audiences. Didn't bother me either. Good family watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 13, 2023

Sadly the script isn't interested in such a complicated legacy but is content with cliched scenes of the preacher father who doesn't understand his talented son despite everyone else believing in him.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 11, 2023

“The Hill,” ultimately hits with power, but without finesse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2023

An incredibly inspirational and touching movie that of course pulls at the heartstrings but it sets out what it was meant to do: honor the subject of a unique story and to give hope and inspire. Dennis Quaid gives his best performance in years.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Sep 8, 2023

The story is filled with cliches, clunky dialogue and speechifying lifted from Bible verses.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 1, 2023

Toggling back and forth between a sports drama and a faith-based film, Jeff Celentano aims to please by never getting too gritty. Sappy at times, but the feel-good film leaves you inspired just as the filmmakers intended.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2023

A true story of faith, hope and love entertainingly delivered.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 27, 2023

The Hill celebrates a time-tested formula for dad-and-son baseball dramas.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2023

Overflowing with underdog cliches and aggressive sentimentality, the film's wholesome charms are neutralized by heavy-handed platitudes and sermonizing, right down to the obligatory big-game finale.

| Aug 26, 2023

Echoes of Norman Rockwell bounce off The Hill, a sincere, inspiring baseball movie grounded in a complicated father-son relationship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2023

The Hill is a poorly constructed faith-based biopic about disabled baseball player Rickey Hill. This long-winded and preachy drama leaves big questions unanswered about his life. The movie is also plagued with hokey dialogue and corny acting performances.

| Aug 25, 2023

Starring Dennis Quaid as Rickey's preacher Dad, James, and directed by Jeff Celentano, this faith-based sports film uses the titular metaphor to express what Rickey had to overcome to pursue his heart's desire.

| Aug 25, 2023

In reading about Hill and his struggles, it’s obvious his story needed no embellishment. His deeds were inspiration enough, something “The Hill” doesn’t trust.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2023

The Hill leaves no cliché unturned when driving home the “inspired” part of the description “inspired by a true story.”

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 25, 2023

There’s plenty of good material to work with. But the wildly uneven handling of it leaves the movie oscillating between sincerely touching and overly sentimental.

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

... the movie’s antiquated structure and insistence on relying on clumsy exposition when it should show us how Hill overcame the odds prove to be its undoing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 25, 2023

When it's not wrestling (however nicely) with spiritual matters, "The Hill" is a well-meaning but dutiful trudge toward an ordained destination.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2023