Remember the Titans
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: September 29, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
10
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Works better and cuts deeper than the mostly fictionalized "Hoosiers." Read full review
88
New York PostLou Lumenick
A civics lesson about integration very artfully - and entertainingly - disguised as an upbeat family sports movie. Read full review
80
Film.comTom Keogh
A huge surprise: a startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining slice of American history, a popcorn movie with complex observations about, of all things, racism. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Earns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Has the outer form of a brave statement about the races in America, but the soul of a sports movie in which everything is settled by the obligatory last play in the last seconds of the championship game. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
It has a good heart, though, and makes an amiable introduction to the integration battles of the '60s and '70s. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Lively and inspirational, with terrific performances from a big star and a host of supporting players. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It really does communicate an optimistic sense that race is irrelevant and we can all live happily ever after together. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Only a very stony heart could resist its pull. Read full review
75
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in an atypically high-minded and low-budget frame of mind, manages to breeze through most of the gridiron genre's obstacles with his admirable, crowd-pleasing Titans. Read full review
75
Mr. ShowbizLarry Terenzi
Ultimately nothing more than a live-action cartoon. A high-minded, inspiring cartoon, but a cartoon nonetheless. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The script's hokiness flattens the performances. Read full review
63
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
A proudly unsophisticated demonstration of racial progress. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Denzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
A shrewd, pulpy crowd-pleaser. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Herman Boone was no doubt a terrific football coach, but the lessons to be drawn from his success in Alexandria are ambiguous, and Remember the Titans is too wrapped up in its weepy macho sentimentality to address them clearly. Read full review
50
The New York TimesDana Stevens
If Remember the Titans is corny, it's unabashedly, even generously so. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Earnest and well-intentioned. Read full review
50
TNT RoughCutSusannah Breslin
Perfectly effective when judged on its own merits, but is that really enough anymore? Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineSteve Simels
This mix of sweat and uplift in the Civil Rights era doesn't quite come off, despite some strong performances and the fact that it's based on a genuinely inspirational true story. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderMichael Miner
The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless. Read full review
40
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Distressingly shallow.
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Falls short of both the social history lesson it so pointedly strives to impart and the sport it so roughly embraces. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
History as filtered through the faux-liberal prism of Hollywood's dream factory, and an insult, I believe, to the people who actually carried the fight and endured the pain for civil rights. Read full review
30
Film.comPeter Brunette
Simplistic and non-controversial, and thus is virtually guaranteed commercial success. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Its heart is in the right place, but it has no soul. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Bruckheimer's latest is in some crucial respects worse than those earlier blockbuster bids ("Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Coyote Ugly") -- certainly it's more fraudulent -- because unlike those films, which don't claim to be about anything other than thrills and tits, Remember the Titans means to be about race. Read full review
20
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
A feel-good movie only in the sense that it wants to reassure today's white people about our own enlightenment and how far we've come in the evolution of our attitudes about race. Read full review
10
Washington PostStephen Hunter
So smug and so proud of itself, and you can tell that everybody involved conceives of it as a civics lesson instead of a story, that they squeeze all the life out of it. Read full review
10
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Boorish and flatulent. Read full review
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