Without Limits: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 38 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

84

Full Review » 14 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

Its wisdom, and clearly Mr. Towne's, lies in the film's way of filtering a young man's headstrong nature through an older man's more rueful point of view.
Full Review » 12 years ago
USA Today (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Where can a movie like this go except straight into a brick wall?
Full Review » 12 years ago
Louis B. Parks Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Without Limits wins as a sports film precisely because it's not really about sports or a great victory.
Full Review » 7 years ago
David Denby New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Beautifully made and features a marvelous performance by Donald Sutherland as the track coach Bill Bowerman, but the movie is no more than moderately interesting.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Sutherland's performance is the film's treasure.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

With a very good part for a change, Sutherland invests the imposing Bowerman with a host of subtly expressed attitudes toward his most illustrious charge.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

Without Limits is an admirable departure from the norm, but its greatest strength doubles as an undermining weakness.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

Without Limits makes for an engrossing examination of the will to win, the importance of icons in American sports, and the interference of money in amateur athletics.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

Whether he would have won at the next Olympics, we'll never know. What we do know is that Towne, a man of ruefully romantic temperament, has found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

As Pre, Billy Crudup is dynamite -- a magnetic star presence who's unafraid to show how Pre's drive also makes him a bit of a prick.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

Towne's most important contribution, aside from his gift for structure and willingness to direct this story in a classic, straight-ahead manner, is the power of his words.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Clint Morris Brag Magazine

60

A brilliantly performed, gut-wrenchingly sad flick
Full Review » 3 years ago
Film4

Prefontaine's infectious enthusiasm is ably conveyed, although the film might have been a stronger and less earnest effort if producer Tom Cruise had played a more active part.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Sandra Contreras TV Guide's Movie Guide

63

Except for a few lapses, co-scriptwriters Kenny Moore and Towne allow Pre's aura to remain undisturbed by overdramatization and psychological speculation.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

75

A couple of sterling lead performances by Billy Crudup and Donald Sutherland.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

he understated cinematography by Conrad Hall and sterling work from Crudup and Sutherland lend a patina of class, yet it's in the end a po-faced film.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Daniel Eagan Film Journal International

40

Bland biopic about runners
Full Review » 8 years ago
Sarah Chauncey Reel.com

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
James Rocchi Netflix

90

Both Crudup and Sutherland deliver superb performances in the support of a thoughtful, committed, and richly visualized film.
Full Review » 10 years ago
John A. Nesbit ToxicUniverse.com

70

'... the biopic plays fine as an intelligent character study of a mythologized athlete who died far too young.'
Full Review » 10 years ago
Boston Phoenix

Full Review » 10 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

Offers plenty of interesting insights into the beauty, the poetry, the drama, and the science of athletic competition.
Full Review » 10 years ago