A sports movie like every other, but the excellent, lived-in performances of Cube and Palmer make it a mildly affecting.
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VarietyJoe Leydon
VarietyJoe Leydon
While The Longshots is by no means an unpleasant experience, it feels like a project carried out by people who began with the best of intentions but weren't quite able to sustain their initial enthusiasm.
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The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Every triumph registers low on the emotion meter, and most of the supporting characters are two-dimensional at best.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
It's almost always rewarding to watch an underdog triumph--what else could explain why movies exactly like this keep being made?--but Longshots is one underdog that's hard to love and harder still to champion.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
The Longshots strains so hard to inspire, every moment underlined with a by-the-numbers score, that it ends up totally innocuous.