Seabiscuit: Critic Reviews

A rare pedigreed entrant in a summer of mules.

Seabiscuit grew out of a restless, populist strain in American culture. Seabiscuit, decorous to a fault, pays tribute to that spirit without partaking of it.

It tells such a good story in such a cleverly old-fashioned way that you go along with practically everything.

Writer/director Gary Ross' movie isn't grand, but it's very good.

Bright, uplifting adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's runaway bestseller.

Generally, Seabiscuit is a winner.

Seabiscuit is a triumph.

Cerebral populism aside, there's some moderately exciting action here.

Seabiscuit the movie gets it right -- not only providing exciting, saddle's-eye-view racing scenes, but also recalling the Depression era when 'the Biscuit' came from behind and gave the suffering nation hope.

A movie that has as much heart as Seabiscuit himself.

A handsomely mounted Hollywood affair with a can't-miss story.

The real find of the film is Gary Stevens as George Woolf, the famous jockey who steps in at a crucial moment for his friend Pollard.

Watching this movie, you get the feeling that the Depression existed so that Seabiscuit could be memorialized.

Seabiscuit will satisfy those who have read the book, and I imagine it will satisfy those like myself, who have not.

Sleek, beautiful and packed with emotion, not too flashy but full of heart, this is a movie worthy of its unlikely yet glorious subject.

I found this film stultifyingly self-important and, despite the regularity with which it cuts to the chase, weirdly static.

Corny but effective.

Even if thundering hoofbeats don't automatically electrify you, you'll be tempted to cheer when the dark horse crosses the finish line first.

It's the kind of movie that makes you feel better for having watched it, a film of endless hope and energy.

In a summer film season filled with plotless star vehicles and exploding sequels, Seabiscuit easily rides to the front of the pack.

[Seabiscuit] clicks on all cylinders as a technical achievement in re-creating a piece of racetrack history, though its larger sociological statements are more than a little overblown and oversimplified.

If you don't go away entertained, informed and sated with satisfaction, you need to have your pulse checked to see if you still have one.

Respectable when it should be thrilling, honorable when it should be rough and ready.

This is a movie that gets it all right.

Even told in an overinflated, overexplicit way, the story still has a kick.