For Love of the Game
Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 17, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
15
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's the most lugubrious and soppy love story in many a moon, a step backward for director Sam Raimi after "A Simple Plan." Read full review
38
New York PostRod Dreher
It's "The Postman" on a pitcher's mound.
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
For the first 100 minutes or so I found this hokey but serviceable; after that my watch became more meaningful than anything I could locate on-screen. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The baseball half of the story just slightly works. ... Nothing in [the other] half of the film works. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Costner himself is the doggedly humorless heart and soul (and brains?) of this monumentally maudlin picture. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
You will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning.
30
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A dreary, humorless affair, with no real feeling for the rhythms of either baseball or love. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
This dialogue isn't helped by two actors who look terrific but can barely choke out a word that sounds remotely authentic or spontaneous.
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