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Has a genial, funky charm.
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88Shelton has a talent for using the specific to illustrate the universal. Avowed baseball haters loved "Bull Durham." And if watching golf sounds like an excellent insomnia cure, you will probably still enjoy Tin Cup.
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80Shelton keeps the humour straight down the middle and, just like "Bull Durham" before it, uses the rituals and metaphors of sport to relate the complexities of love and relationships.
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80Bright, stylish, ridiculously alluring.
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80Rene Russo is both knowing and vulnerable, proving beyond a doubt that she is modern Hollywood's one true heiress to the screwball tradition. [19 August 1996, p.68]
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80Sexy, slap-happy links comedy.
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75Well written. The dialogue is smart and fresh.
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75Accomplishes the impossible, maybe the unimaginable -- it makes golf entertaining.
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75Costner and Russo show they're up to par. [16 August 1996, p.D1]
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75This movie ranks as better-than-par entertainment.
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75The climax also comes with a nifty little kicker.
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70Amiable and constantly amusing rather than uproarious, this mangy tale of a ne'er-do-well's fitful assault on personal and professional respectability benefits greatly from Kevin Costner's ingratiatingly comic star turn, his most appealing work in years.
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70Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap.
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60The good news about the amiable but only partly satisfying Tin Cup is that it frees Kevin Costner from playing a monument and restores to us the loose, sparkling comic actor he used to be. [19 August 1996, p.66]
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50You can almost feel writer-director Ron Shelton praying for lightning to strike twice, but to no avail.
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50Squanders an appealing performance from Costner.
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25Ron Shelton's romantic comedy has no more visual excitement than a televised golf tournament, but the climax is truly surprising, and there's solid acting by Don Johnson and Cheech Marin.
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If you've got money to waste and enjoy pain, go ahead and see this movie. Or just play a round of golf. Six of one…
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20I can think of only one bit of Tin Cup that's beautiful, imaginative, and different, and it lasts for only a few seconds: a speech delivered by Russo, before her character is transformed into the standard-issue cheerleader, is broken into fragments by jump cuts.
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PatC.4Golfers will appreciate it, and it's a cute entertainment, but once again there is no limit on Costner's ability to dumb down a story.