Dads will love The Boys in the Boat.

Full Review | May 29, 2024

I have no doubt the real Joe Nantz and his coach and teammates were fine, complex human beings who certainly deserve to be more than mannequin-esque characters in a film that indulges every sports-movie trope.

Full Review | May 28, 2024

Although the characters sometimes lack the necessary charisma to successfully advance the plot, it is important to highlight that the boat racing scenes are masterfully filmed. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 2, 2024

Rowers with their rather basic conflicts, but functional to a story that seeks easy empathy... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2024

An emotionally frugal sports drama so elemental it strides into a creative coma, George Clooney overdoses on old fashioned aspirations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2024

The Boys in the Boat offers modest excitement during the competitive sports scenes but falls short in other aspects, running out of steam well before its conclusion. Viewers are left craving more than just a trivial account of the facts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2024

Clooney has given us a reminder of all the reasons people once went to the cinema and suggests those preferences have been repressed but not abandoned.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2024

Based on Daniel James Brown's non-fiction best-seller, it's a rousing underdog sports saga set during the great Depression of the 1930s.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 7, 2024

[The Boys in the Boat] assures us that the triumph of the soul is working together, not apart. It is a simple sentiment to be sure, but watching Clooney’s beautifully constructed period piece it is pretty much all I could think about.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2024

The Boys In The Boat is beautiful to look at but lacks the serious depth that it needed to become a classic film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2024

George Clooney’s disarmingly old-school rowing movie gets it right.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2024

"Fine" is all well and good when you're making a by the numbers sports movie. The story of this team, however, deserved more, and what Clooney serves up is a portentous slobs vs. snobs with the patina of cinematic legitimacy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 25, 2024

I enjoyed the film as I have always delighted in learning about different topics, and now I have an understanding of the sport of rowing and a genuine appreciation for how this event happened--great performances as well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2024

It's a serviceable sports drama, George Clooney as director plays it safe. It's nothing you haven't seen before, but it is extremely watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2024

It’s the kind of Disney movie that not even Disney makes any more — an ode to dimpled, decent, self-deprecating American manliness of the kind Clooney personifies on screen with a knowing twinkle, only minus the twinkle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2024

It’s unexceptionally filmed and occasionally clunky, but this is a gently heart-warming underdog story, and Turner shows real star-power in the lead role.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2024

t’s difficult to know how, or why, Clooney became such a dreary director.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2024

There is an elegance, a grace, that Clooney strives for in The Boys In The Boat, and although the film is mostly a misfire, the director’s still able to create moments of tension. If only he could sustain it elsewhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2024

The Boys in the Boat is an old-fashioned and solid historical biography that ticks a lot of the right boxes. It’s not going to set tongues wagging but what it does do is tell an inspiring story with polish and a deftness befitting the genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2024

An unapologetically formulaic tale of triumph against the odds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2024