| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Michael Dequina |
| Film genres don't come more basic and predictable than the love story
and the sports movie. Love story: soulmates run into countless,
sometimes trivial, obstacles en route to "happily ever after"; sports
movie: athletes must overcome physical and...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Homer Yen |
| When you read your horoscope, there always seems to be
a passage about waiting for stars and planets to
align. Supposedly, when this finally occurs,
something joyful and magical will happen. For a few
glorious moments, everything seems to fall into...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Rose 'Bams' Cooper |
| LOVE AND BASKETBALL (2000)
[review/analysis]
Rated PG-13; running time 118 minutes
Genre: Drama
IMDB site: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0199725
Official site: http://www.loveandbasketball.com/
Written by: Gina Prince
Directed by: Gina Prince...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| Reviewed by Harvey Karten
New Line Cinema
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard, Dennis
Haysbert, Debbi Morgan, Harry J. Lennix, Kyla Pratt,
Glenndon Chatman, Jess Willard, Chris...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Scott Renshaw |
| LOVE AND BASKETBALL
(New Line)
Starring: Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Debbi
Morgan, Harry J. Lennix, Erika Ringor.
Screenplay: Gina Prince-Bythewood.
Producers: Spike Lee and Sam Kitt.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood.
MPAA...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Chuck Schwartz |
| Love and Basketball
Rated [PG-13], 120 minutes
Starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan;
Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Debbi Morgan, and Kyla Pratt.
Written and Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
website: www.loveandbasketball.com/ more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Ross Anthony |
| This film takes the court with all the fervor, spark, and talent a crowd
loves to see in an underdog. Playing a fantastic first quarter and scoring
from every corner with flashy moves; the film nearly secures an "A+" by half
time. But like a team...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Mac VerStandig |
| Love and Basketball
1 and 1/2 Stars (Out of 4)
Reviewed by Mac VerStandig
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http://www.moviereviews.org
April 16, 2000
be posted to Moviereviews.org on April 21, 2000. Rather, as it was covered
as part of Filmfest DC 2000, it will...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by James Brundage |
| filmcritic.com presents a review from staff member James Brundage.
You can find the review with full credits at
http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/d6f25ebcc3d22783882568c20010bfac?OpenDocument more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| LOVE AND BASKETBALL is a terrible title. As soon as you hear it, you
expect the movie to be another lame, teenage romantic comedy, which are
a dime a dozen at the cinema with most as forgettable as last week's
lottery numbers. more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Susan Granger |
| First-time feature film-maker Gina Price-Blythewood scores
with this romantic drama told in four quarters. Sanaa Lathan and Omar
Epps play two young athletes from Baldwin Hills, an upper middle-class
black neighborhood of Los Angeles. Friendly...more |
| Love & Basketball Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| Financed by Spike Lee’s Forty Acres and a Mule production company, Love
& Basketball is too much like Spike’s recent flicks - excessively long,
agonizingly self-indulgent and full of nails-across-a-blackboard music
from Terence Blanchard (Summer of Sam)....more |
