Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
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79 out of 100

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9.1 out of 10

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  • Summary: The movie Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 is, on one level, about a football game. Director Kevin Rafferty allows fifty of the players from he game to tell the story. On another level the film is about 1968—Vietnam, SDS, birth control, fate, class, tear gas and sex. (Kino International)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Leba Hertz
    100
    Riveting.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    Both an irresistible human story and as fine a documentary on football as "Hoop Dreams" was on basketball.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    A ripping good yarn, like a Fitzgerald short story rewritten by John Updike, with an uproarious, impossible Hollywood ending.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    Rafferty keeps the structure so blandly standard, the title is nearly the most intriguing element of the whole film.

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  1. John
    10
    Great! It is difficult to understand why this movie would be so riviting given that this is Ivy league football and 40 years ago. But the players are great characters and the game may be the most suspenseful of all time. Must see!… Expand
  2. EdwardK
    9
    An excellent documentary. As a Yale graduate, I hated the ending, of course, but I loved the film. It's really about the players and their roller-coaster of emotions during and since The Game. Except for "Man on Wire" it's the best documentary I've seen in years.… Expand

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