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The New York Times wrote, "it shines with understanding and, except for a brash climactic moment, it is a warm and adult adventure, which pins deserving medals on unsung heroes without heroics." [8] Allmovie wrote, "the semi-documentary approach established early in I Believe in You gives way to sentiment as the film winds down." [3]
Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, who served as a film critic for The New York Times from 1977 to 1999, serving as chief critic for the last six years, and then a literary critic from 2000 to 2015. In 2000, Maslin helped found the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. She is president of its board ...
Greenspun was a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and in the mid-1970s served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival.A graduate of Yale (B.A., 1951; M.A., 1958) and an instructor in English at Connecticut College from 1959 to 1962, he "began writing about film early in the Sixties, partly as a way of avoiding my Ph.D. dissertation, partly as a way of thinking about ...
You Gotta Believe is based on the true story of a Little League team's journey to the 2002 Little League World Series. The team traveled from Fort Worth, Texas, to Williamsport, Pa., dedicating ...
Bette Davis once said that old age isn’t for sissies. Neither is childhood, as playwright Bess Wohl well knows. Anyone who had a childhood needs to see Wohl’s new play, “Make Believe.” And ...
The New York Times gave the film a positive review: [12] "Stretched to 80 minutes, the story (by the director Leah Meyerhoff) almost breaks; that it holds together without compromising its simplicity or emotional authenticity only proves that, contrary to the maxim, you don’t need a gun if you’ve got the right girl."
Wesley Morris (born 1975) [2] is an American film critic and podcast host. He is currently critic-at-large for The New York Times, [3] as well as co-host, with J Wortham, of the New York Times podcast Still Processing.
During their 2002 Little League World Series run, the Fort Worth team faced elimination 11 times and won every game. But in the semifinals, Fort Worth lost 2-1 to a team from Kentucky in 11 innings.