An entertaining and compelling account of that year, even though most basketball fans will already know the ending.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2006

Stylistically, it plays like an ESPN profile more than a serious documentary, but the issues and drama is all real enough -- and so is the big-league money.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2006

Even if the outcome is already known by those who follow basketball, Through the Fire makes for a suspenseful movie with an emotional climax that exceeds any fictional screen treatment of sports heroism.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2006

[Through the Fire] seems willing to beg off the tough questions in exchange for access.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 16, 2006

A highly satisfying documentary.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2006

With a real-life athlete as talented and charismatic as Coney Island hoop prodigy Sebastian Telfair, almost any outcome would probably have made for good drama, but Hock lucked out when life provided a happy ending.

| Feb 10, 2006

Through the Fire fails to show indignation that rich white guys are trying to get even richer at the expense of a naive black kid from the ghetto.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2006

[A] superb, ultimately exhilarating account of Coney Island basketball phenom Sebastian Telfair's senior year at Lincoln High.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2006

The film's biggest accomplishment is that it is entertaining whether or not you know the outcome. Telfair's got the skills to play and market himself, and Through the Fire has enough game to make us care.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2006

What Hock's film finds is much richer and more resonant than the average exit-from-the-ghetto tale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2006

Jonathan Hock's unwaveringly upbeat documentary follows the basketball sensation Sebastian Telfair as he chooses between the University of Louisville and the N.B.A.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 9, 2006

A riveting doc of hoop dreams realized.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2006

Through the Fire only touches on the influence big business-driven commerce wields in sports.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 21, 2006