• Starring: Kelly Preston, Kevin Costner
  • Summary: A provocative look into the professional and personal passions of a major league baseball player, who in the twilight of a successful career is forced to reconcile a lifetime of decisions that have been clouded by the trappings of fame. (Universal Pictures)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 31
  2. Negative: 8 out of 31
  1. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    88
    After revitalizing baseball movies with "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham," he's now three for three with the funny, quirky, rueful, and richly textured For Love of the Game.
  2. The game is cool to watch, and the love story is assertive enough to hook even the stodgiest ESPN man.
  3. 38
    It's the most lugubrious and soppy love story in many a moon, a step backward for director Sam Raimi after "A Simple Plan."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Negative: 1 out of 3

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