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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyVarietyAn energetic, nicely balanced documentary containing all the necessary elements for sports reportage with the added advantage of meatier issues attached.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe resulting portrait is a cautionary rejoinder to typical sports-movie uplift, elucidating how athletics remain a dangerously precarious foundation upon which to construct lasting peace.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNever forgetting the rush of the game, the directors regularly serve up fleet footage of the team’s highs and lows, allowing the rhythms of the field to set the film’s volatile beat.
- 60The longer this profile of the mixed Muslim-Jewish crew follows players over the course of a difficult season, the more it establishes the difficulty of burdening one team to serve as a national symbol of reconciliation—and how hard it is to break free from triumph-of-the-underdog clichés with even the best of intentions
- 60Boxoffice MagazineTim CogshellBoxoffice MagazineTim CogshellThe central notion in After the Cup is not the obvious; we can all live and work together to our greater achievement no matter where we are from or who we are. Rather, the question here is-will we-even when we lose the football game? It's a much smarter and more interesting question.
- Cinematically, though, After the Cup lacks the intimacy and narrative focus needed for a more wholly involving experience.
- There’s a great story to be told here, but After The Cup feels more like an outline than a finished draft