Happy Gilmore 2
Twenty-nine years is a long time between sequels. Most of those films fail because the audience has grown up and the comedy has not.…...
WOKE: 3.45
TRAD: 31.22
AUTH: 82%
Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore is thirty years old and it still makes people laugh. That is not nothing. Most comedies from the mid-nineties feel like archaeology.…...
WOKE: 3.7
TRAD: 17.15
AUTH: 88%
The Iron Claw
The Iron Claw is a haunting film about the Von Erich wrestling dynasty and the way family legacy and cultural values can become weapons.…...
WOKE: 9.2
TRAD: 11.1
AUTH: 83%
Miracle
Miracle has the easiest setup in sports film history. You already know the ending. The 1980 US Olympic hockey team beating the Soviet Union is one of the most famous moments in American sports, in American history. The miracle is not a spoiler.…...
WOKE: 1.4
TRAD: 37.38
AUTH: 98%
Hoosiers
If you want to explain to someone what a traditional sports film looks like, you show them Hoosiers. That's it. Discussion over....
WOKE: 2.75
TRAD: 34.51
AUTH: 97%
Rocky
Rocky is 50 years old and it still works. That's not a small thing. Most films that win Best Picture feel like artifacts within a decade. Rocky feels like it was made last year. The reason is simple: it's about something real....
WOKE: 1.4
TRAD: 29.54
AUTH: 97%
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans scores traditional lean, and if that surprises you, let me explain the math....
WOKE: 9.14
TRAD: 16.24
AUTH: 72%
Ford v Ferrari
Ford v Ferrari is the kind of film that Hollywood used to make regularly and almost never makes anymore.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 22.05
AUTH: 93%
Air
Air is the kind of movie that shouldn't work and completely does. A 112-minute film about a sneaker deal. No action, no explosions, no love story to speak of. Just a group of men in bad 1980s clothes arguing about basketball shoes in conference rooms.…...
WOKE: 2.4
TRAD: 15.2
AUTH: 92%
Creed III
Creed III is the best pure sports drama since Rocky II and the most traditional-values-aligned major film of 2023. It is also Michael B.…...
WOKE: 5.1
TRAD: 22.4
AUTH: 88%