Glory Road

Playing out like Remember The Titans for basketball fans, Glory Road is yet another would-be inspirational true story that follows sports-movie conventions.

First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel.

Trying to make a sports movie for the entire family is understandable, but it makes a complicated story like Glory Road feel more like Disney than reality.

An underdog sports movie by the numbers.

Glory Road is a rousing and worthy tribute to one of the most important college basketball teams and one of the most important championship games of all time.

The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.

Underrated sports movie from Disney with an inspirational true story

A very lazy movie. [Full Review in Spanish]

If you're a basketball fan, you'll love it. If you're a parent looking for movie inspiration for your offspring, see it as a family outing. For everyone else, Glory Road is an accessible time capsule of American history.

Like most sports films Glory Road works best when it is actually showcasing its sport ... off the court, however, it's alternately flat and didactic. Director Gartner goes to great pains to drill the films message in, early and often.