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75Has the outer form of a brave statement about the races in America, but the soul of a sports movie in which everything is settled by the obligatory last play in the last seconds of the championship game.
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50Denzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep.
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88A civics lesson about integration very artfully - and entertainingly - disguised as an upbeat family sports movie.
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40Distressingly shallow.
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75Earns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along.
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75It has a good heart, though, and makes an amiable introduction to the integration battles of the '60s and '70s.
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50A shrewd, pulpy crowd-pleaser.
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40Falls short of both the social history lesson it so pointedly strives to impart and the sport it so roughly embraces.
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75A conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale.
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75Only a very stony heart could resist its pull.
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38History as filtered through the faux-liberal prism of Hollywood's dream factory, and an insult, I believe, to the people who actually carried the fight and endured the pain for civil rights.
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63The script's hokiness flattens the performances.
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50Earnest and well-intentioned.
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88Works better and cuts deeper than the mostly fictionalized "Hoosiers."
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75It really does communicate an optimistic sense that race is irrelevant and we can all live happily ever after together.
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50Herman Boone was no doubt a terrific football coach, but the lessons to be drawn from his success in Alexandria are ambiguous, and Remember the Titans is too wrapped up in its weepy macho sentimentality to address them clearly.
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10So smug and so proud of itself, and you can tell that everybody involved conceives of it as a civics lesson instead of a story, that they squeeze all the life out of it.
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20A feel-good movie only in the sense that it wants to reassure today's white people about our own enlightenment and how far we've come in the evolution of our attitudes about race.
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50If Remember the Titans is corny, it's unabashedly, even generously so.
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75Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes.
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75Lively and inspirational, with terrific performances from a big star and a host of supporting players.
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30Its heart is in the right place, but it has no soul.
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10Boorish and flatulent.
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63A proudly unsophisticated demonstration of racial progress.
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75Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in an atypically high-minded and low-budget frame of mind, manages to breeze through most of the gridiron genre's obstacles with his admirable, crowd-pleasing Titans.
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30Bruckheimer's latest is in some crucial respects worse than those earlier blockbuster bids ("Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Coyote Ugly") -- certainly it's more fraudulent -- because unlike those films, which don't claim to be about anything other than thrills and tits, Remember the Titans means to be about race.
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80A huge surprise: a startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining slice of American history, a popcorn movie with complex observations about, of all things, racism.
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50This mix of sweat and uplift in the Civil Rights era doesn't quite come off, despite some strong performances and the fact that it's based on a genuinely inspirational true story.
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30Simplistic and non-controversial, and thus is virtually guaranteed commercial success.
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75Ultimately nothing more than a live-action cartoon. A high-minded, inspiring cartoon, but a cartoon nonetheless.
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50Perfectly effective when judged on its own merits, but is that really enough anymore?
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The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.
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