The Boys in the Boat

"Those looking for a film worthy of this engaging true story will have to keep waiting."

"Try as it might for that additional political heft, this is ultimately just a standard-issue sports movie."

"Feels like an animatronic museum display."

"There’s a lingering quaintness to it all."

"Autopilot Clooney – a pleasant, coddling watch almost ruthlessly shorn of depth or subtext."

"This inspirational drama cannot outrace the filmmaker’s staid, undemanding approach"

"It’s time to ask the question, “Is there any genre that George Clooney can’t direct … badly?”"

"To watch “A George Clooney Film” is to accept a good, long nap."

"Like the Huskies, it gets the job done, stumbling sometimes but mostly assured."

"A rather inert proposition, a beautiful postcard of a film."

"A handsome, stirring, yet untaxing dose of underdog-sports uplift."

"A fine time at the movies."

"Conventionally old fashioned, the film may not surprise you, but it will satisfy you."

"Well-crafted, lovely to look at, and rather old-fashioned."

"Fluidly told and elegantly mounted."

"The script is as subtle as a bonk on the nose, and the editing repeats every beat twice-over."

"The movie can’t really escape the whirlpool-like drag of its earnest familiarity."

"The excitment on the water is muted by thinly developed personal dramas."

"Drifts from one sports cliche to the next."

"Not a bad film, but certainly not a great one."