Hoosiers 1986

Critics score:
88 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Pat Graham, Chicago Reader: Bobby Knight would not be amused, though Tark the Shark might've had a good laugh at the naive masquerade. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Basketball movies don't get any better. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a movie that is all heart. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Shameless, yes, but open your eyes, close your mind, sit back and enjoy. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Cloyingly nostalgic. Read more

Variety: Pic belongs to Hackman, but Dennis Hopper gets another opportunity to put in a showy turn as a local misfit. Read more

Paul Attanasio, Washington Post: The movie's enormous craftsmanship accumulates till you're actually seduced into believing all its Pepperidge Farm buncombe. That's quite an achievement. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Even though we've seen it all before, Hoosiers scores big by staying small. Read more