Tin Cup 1996

Critics score:
69 / 100

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: This film's overriding message is as pleasing as its flippant, skillful banter. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Dispiritingly conventional and obvious. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Breaking down the golf trajectories into separate shots during the sports climax comes across as an expedient form of cheating--the very opposite of authenticity. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The climactic game, in which Roy, in a way that defies prediction, attempts to sink the shot of his life, is the most rousing sequence of the year, a celebration of what it really means to win. Read more

Globe and Mail: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: As sports movies go (regardless of the sport), this one turns in a respectable showing, injecting some intelligence and maturity into a story that easily could have succumbed to a flood of 'struggling underdog' cliches. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A formula sports comedy with a lot of non-formula human comedy. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Tin Cup, starring Kevin Costner as a likable loser, accomplishes the impossible, maybe the unimaginable -- it makes golf entertaining. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness. Read more

Time Out: Costner hasn't been this charming and spontaneous for years. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Amiable and constantly amusing rather than uproarious, this mangy tale of a ne'er-do-well's fitful assault on personal and professional respectability benefits greatly from Kevin Costner's ingratiatingly comic star turn. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap. Read more