| Friday Night Lights Review |
| by Bob Bloom (Rating: 3/4) |
| FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (2004) 3 stars out of 4. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Derek
Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Tim McGraw and Lee Thompson
Young. Based on the book by H.G. Bissinger. Screenplay by David Aaron Cohen
and
Peter Berg....more |
| Friday Night Lights Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards |
| Odessa lies in a hard-baked landscape that
stretches across West Texas like a burnt tortilla
under a merciless bleached-blue sky broken only by oil
rigs and spiraling footballs. On Friday nights
through the autumn months the town assembles...more |
| Friday Night Lights Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: C+) |
| Reviewed by Harvey S. Karten
Universal Pictures/ Imagine Entertainment
Grade: C+
Directed by: Peter Berg
Written by: David Aaron Cohen, Peter Berg, book by H.G.
Bissinger
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek
Luke, Jay Hernandez,...more |
| Friday Night Lights Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: B-) |
| It's the beginning of the 1988 football season and the
Permian High School Panthers of Odessa, Texas, have
the state's best record of wins ever. But, the oil
town has fallen on rough times with the petroleum
business, literally, drying up and the local...more |
| Friday Night Lights Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 8/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "Friday Night Lights" (Universal Pictures)
Based on what Sports Illustrated calls one of the top five sports
stories, this true tale chronicles an American subcultural phenomenon: the
obsession of local Friday Night...more |
| Friday Night Lights Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is the second best movie ever about high school football.
(Although it's a close call, I still think that the title for the best should
continue to be held by the documentary GO TIGERS!) One reason that FRIDAY
NIGHT LIGHTS gets so...more |
| Friday Night Lights Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 7/10) |
| Color me pleasantly surprised by Friday Night Lights (it opens next week),
which looked like Remember the Titans II - another movie about a real-life
high school football team and their improbable run for the state
championship. Here's what Lights has...more |
