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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It honors the book of the same name. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A stand-up example of how effective underdog sports movies are, no matter how many times you've seen this kind of thing before. Read more
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: You will watch as though you've been rooting for the Panthers your entire life. The movie is that good. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: A heart-pounding big-screen treatment that captures all the action of a tumultuous season while showing the emotional toll on the players. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: This film deserves a stronger, unifying theme. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: People who like sports movies will love Friday Night Lights, but so will people who don't like sports movies and would never think of seeing a high school football game. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: You'll be surprised -- and thrilled -- by how completely this film engages you. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Friday Night Lights doesn't capture the essence of H.G. Bissinger's bestselling book, but it does embody the spirit of Texas high school football. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: There's not much in Friday Night Lights that you haven't ever seen or couldn't have imagined. Relative to most Hollywood sports movies, however, it just feels new. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Always slick and pumped up, Friday Night Lights is real enough around the edges to hold our attention even if it sacrifices accuracy for storytelling ease. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Friday Night Lights is the best [football movie] I've seen, and I'm hard-pressed to think of another film about sports -- any sport -- that surpasses it. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Lights feels real, honest and -- most of all -- heartfelt, and it's filled with good performances and a fine spirit. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Editing out many of the body blows and personal fouls from Bissinger's hard-hitting account, Friday Night Lights on film tends to punt just when true insight demands going for first down. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A stringent, stirring real-life drama. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: A hard-hitting, fast-paced, stirring film. Read more
Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly: Boilerplate stuff, though livened by flashy editing and cinematography. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Few films have shown so powerfully the slashing double edge of sports fever. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The film doesn't completely gloss over the rough stuff and remains, for the most part, true to the text. Read more
Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News: Filled with plenty of bone-crushing, helmet-crashing action. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Nuance typifies both Mr. Thornton's highly calibrated performance and the film's absence of unnecessary underlining. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Peter Berg directs this Texas high school football extravaganza in a tough, gritty style that gives it an unusually fine and vivid sense of place. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: An exciting and involving sports drama that more than does justice to the cliches it presents as 'a true story.' Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie demonstrates the power of sports to involve us; we don't live in Odessa and are watching a game played 16 years ago, and we get all wound up. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The film feels like an anthology of cliches from a hundred football movies. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Friday Night Lights bursts through the line of those beefy sports cliches, only to switch uniforms and join them. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: There's an interesting movie struggling to get out of Friday Night Lights, but every time it tries it gets rushed and tackled. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: The affecting, gruelling result is less a document of recreational sport than one of obligation and ordeal. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: There's a surge in momentum through the playoffs and into the Texas state championship game, which occupies a quarter of the film's nearly two-hour running time. Read more
Benjamin Strong, Village Voice: The story gestures at a cross-sectional view of America on a Nashville scale. Read more
Sean Daly, Washington Post: A poignant celebration and a chilly condemnation of the high school gridiron as God's country. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The movie is full of both crushing disappointment and hope, resignation and joy, ugliness and great beauty. Read more