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Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com: Draft Day isn't even really about football. It's about coming into your own and finding clarity at a personal and professional crossroads. It's about doing your job. It's a day in the life. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: It's a sign of Costner's enduring stardom that he can skate through a movie this hyperactive and dull, yet still have you like him. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: "Draft Day" is lumbering and predictable, and its hero general manager is so dumb, it should have been called "Dummyball." Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: Costner, naturally, carries the movie and gives it drive and focus. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: An immensely appealing Kevin Costner anchors Ivan Reitman's savvy peek behind the curtain of pro-football wheeling and dealing. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Throughout, the movie repeats the same dialogue setup, with a character asking whether another character is familiar with some football fact or anecdote, hearing a variation on "yes," and then telling it anyway. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: A dopey romance shoehorned into what's supposed to be a drama about the busiest business day of the NFL season is part of what's wrong, but so is a level of incredulity that probably even non-football fans will sniff out. Read more
Peter Keough, Boston Globe: At times the film seems like a highlight reel interrupted by a forgettable movie. Read more
Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Essentially a giant promo for the annual NFL draft, this rote drama appeals to fans by liberally employing all the familiar trademarks, team logos, and broadcast personalities. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Costner's range as an actor remains an open question, more open than his range, certainly. But he carries the movie easily and well. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Charmingly glib, packed with moments that demand grace under pressure, Draft Day is prime Costner turf. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The film has its share of entertaining clashes and reconciliations. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: When you don't just have commercials before the movies, but the movies themselves have become commercials, something has gone wrong. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Thanks to Costner's sly, dry-aged charisma, it marches down the field and scores. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: An entirely conventional serio-comic sports world melodrama that pushes its buttons with undeniable professional finesse. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Though "Draft Day" feels far less authentic than the baseball-themed "Moneyball," it can be amusing to watch all this inside football stuff if you are an NFL fan. Read more
Tony Hicks, San Jose Mercury News: If success for "Draft Day" is being entertaining, and pumping up an audience to the point that some viewers will start dreaming about being an NFL general manager, it scores. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Ivan Reitman's dull-witted movie about the flurries of player trading on N.F.L. draft day might be a commercial for professional football. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's about gamesmanship. About judging character, fast. And yes, about grown sons, and father's shadows. Also about some smart filmmaking. Read more
Ian Buckwalter, NPR: The movie is loaded with all the star cast members and glossy sheen that money can buy. That's almost enough to hide just how aggressively mediocre it is underneath. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Haven't Cleveland fans suffered enough? Not only have they never won a Super Bowl, but now the Browns serve as the center of Ivan Reitman's painfully creaky sports drama. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: A shallow and evasive movie, built more around corporate wish fulfillment than around reality ... Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: This slow-burning wheeler-dealer football drama pays off in the end, but it would be a lot more entertaining along the way if it were loose and irreverent. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The NFL gets a "special thanks" in the end credits. Maybe it should have been the other way around. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: When one looks deeply enough, this is as much about the personalities of the characters as it is about the trades they're involved in. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: A human drama sprinkled with a number of laughs. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Even people who aren't football fans will appreciate the maneuvers and the high-stakes trading, the make-or-break strategies and the careers in the balance. Read more
Jack Hamilton, Slate: Draft Day is one of the dumbest movies about sports ever made because it's one of the dumbest ideas for a movie about sports that anyone has ever had, a fictional film about pro football that isn't even actually about football. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Don't worry if you're not a hard-core gridiron fan - Costner's cool charisma and the universal nature of office politics make this accessible anyway. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It's the Sam Bradford of sports movies - not an All Pro, but capable of a close, fourth-quarter win. Read more
Dave McGinn, Globe and Mail: There's plenty of shimmying here, maybe too much, and lots of spin moves, but it's missing on-the-field results. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Not destined for Costner's personal hall of fame. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: Draft's reverence for the gridiron, its heroes and the cities that worship them (particularly Cleveland) will make the movie a first-round pick of diehards. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: You may think you're not interested in a sturdy little dramatic comedy about the intricacies of the NFL draft process. But with Draft Day, you're in the hands of a master. Read more
Lisa Rosman, New York Magazine/Vulture: Reitman may have his drawbacks but no one has ever accused his films of lacking heart. With sports movies especially, ya gotta have heart. Read more
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: If writers Scott Rothman and Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Rajiv Joseph had stuck to the basics - if the plot was just business - it might have worked. Read more