Tin Cup

Entertainment Weekly Staff (Not credited)

Has a genial, funky charm.

San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser

Shelton 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.

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Bright, stylish, ridiculously alluring.

Time Richard Schickel

Rene 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]

Empire Mark Salisbury

Shelton 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.

Washington Post Hal Hinson

Sexy, slap-happy links comedy.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This movie ranks as better-than-par entertainment.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Accomplishes the impossible, maybe the unimaginable -- it makes golf entertaining.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

The climax also comes with a nifty little kicker.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Well written. The dialogue is smart and fresh.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Costner and Russo show they're up to par. [16 August 1996, p.D1]

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap.

Variety Todd McCarthy

Amiable 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.

Newsweek David Ansen

The 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]

TV Guide Staff (Not credited)

You can almost feel writer-director Ron Shelton praying for lightning to strike twice, but to no avail.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Squanders an appealing performance from Costner.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Ron 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.

Austin Chronicle Hollis Chacona

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…

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

I 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.