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Critics have a name for movies like Coach Carter, A.O. Scott in the New York Times indicates. It's the "inspirational coach drama," and they pretty much follow the same formula. "It's amazing how many games are decided by a dramatic shot at the final buzzer," Scott observes at one point in his review of what he calls a "solid, unsurprising film." "You know how this story goes," remarks Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News. Although she writes that the script is "preachy, predictable and glistening with Hollywood sheen" the movie itself "is by turns funny touching and genuinely inspiring." "Stop me if you've heard this one before," is the way Debra Birnbaum opens her review of the movie. (We'll stop there.) Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe refers to the movie as a "by-the-numbers basketball drama." But he, like his colleagues, gives high marks to Samuel L. Jackson, who plays the title role. "He obviously believes in this story, which plays like a public service announcement for at-risk kids," Morris writes. |
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