Overview
Genre :
DocumentaryRelease Date :
February 17, 2012 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
PG-13Director :
Daniel Lindsay, T.J. MartinStarring :
Montrail Brown, O.C. Brown, Bill Courtney, Chavis Daniels
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
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“..you'll know no more about how football games are won than you did going in. "Try really hard" isn't a game plan..”
by Kyle Smith [New York Post]
“..the well-crafted film's only misstep is the use of occasional subtitles accompanying some of the players' dialogue..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
“..the title is about more than winning games..”
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger]
“..the overall tone of optimism helps make the pic's payoff at once bittersweet and exuberant..”
by Joe Leydon [Variety]
“..the narrative trajectory manages to follow a tried-and-true template while incorporating the unexpected knocks and messy developments of unscripted experience..”
by David Rooney [Hollywood Reporter]
“..the filmmakers smartly pounced on the story and soon discovered that it was richer and more richly populated..”
by Manohla Dargis [New York Times]
Review rate : D+
“..the film feels spread too thin in an effort to capture the entire Manassas football mosaic..”
“..the film feels spread too thin in an effort to capture the entire Manassas football mosaic..”
by Glenn Heath Jr. [Slant Magazine]
Review rate : B
“..the fact is that this story is a familiar one, but it is superbly told..”
“..the fact is that this story is a familiar one, but it is superbly told..”
by James Rocchi [MSN Movies]
Review rate : B+
“..the elements of such a movie are so neatly in place, and Undefeated embraces them with such sentimental-inspirational force..”
“..the elements of such a movie are so neatly in place, and Undefeated embraces them with such sentimental-inspirational force..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
Review rate : B
“..strenuously non-melodramatic, the editing is tight and the camerawork is steady..”
“..strenuously non-melodramatic, the editing is tight and the camerawork is steady..”
by Mark Keizer [Boxoffice Magazine]
“..offers an example of those who have helping those who don't and everybody winning..”
by Marshall Fine [Hollywood & Fine]
Review rate : B
“..mainly, it's eyeball to eyeball..”
“..mainly, it's eyeball to eyeball..”
by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York]
Review rate : B
“..like the feature film The Blind Side, which was based on a true story, this film shows a white coach trying to pull off a miracle with an all-black team..”
“..like the feature film The Blind Side, which was based on a true story, this film shows a white coach trying to pull off a miracle with an all-black team..”
by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat [Spirituality and Practice]
“..it is more of a good works film, anxious to uplift in a similar vein to The Blind Side..”
by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine]
Reviewed by Michael Atkinson [Village Voice]
