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Morning Light
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51 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
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  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    75
    Vividly captures the joy of sailing.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    63
    An OK sports doc that owes as much to reality TV competitions as it does to the genre of nautical cinema.
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    63
    The documentary is enjoyable, though it could have been edited more tightly. The ending, in which three of the contest participants write and perform a catchy pop song, is buoyantly fun.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    A fluffy piece of Disney nonfiction.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    60
    An old-fashioned doc about a sailboat race is well produced but lacks urgency and true insight
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    A Disney movie about a Disney project, this slick sailing documentary feels a little too self-promotional, almost like an attraction you might stumble into at Epcot. But at least it turns out to be a fairly wild ride.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    60
    Like the disastrously overpopulated "Amazing Race: Family Edition," Morning Light never finds a way to make us care who wins.
  8. NPR
    Reviewed by: Bob Mondello
    50
    The film is more appealing for its scenery, which is as breathtakingly blue as you'd expect, than for its drama.
  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    50
    Has a made-for-television style.
  10. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    50
    At one point during the big race, the kids get passed at close range by a team of pros so seasoned, they wrote the navigation software the kids use. I was begging the camera crew to follow them.
  11. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Tim Grierson
    50
    Two unnerving phenomena--the popularity of reality-TV competitions and the Walt Disney Company's ability to churn out entertainment starring the most squeaky-clean humans on earth--come together in Morning Light, a nightmarishly upbeat documentary.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    50
    The film feels more like the ultimate scrapbook for the participants than the vicarious thrill the pair no doubt imagined for audiences.
  13. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    50
    Morning Light, sailor's delight. All others be forewarned.
  14. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    30
    If the makers were hoping they'd chronicled a metaphor for life's struggle, they probably weren't counting on the struggle being monotony.
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