Sport films 87 films

Every sport film we have reviewed that is out now, with the score and where it is streaming. How we rate.

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Sport is the excuse, not the subject. The films we score highly on this shelf are about work, money and family, with a match or a bout somewhere near the end that the film could, in most cases, survive losing. What we judge is whether the people are still interesting when the whistle goes: whether the director has looked at the kitchen, the bus and the training room as closely as the pitch. Boxing turns up more than any other sport here, and the shelf leans towards the recent, though the best of it is often a documentary that took years to make.

Start with Hoop Dreams (92), which earns every one of its 174 minutes by paying attention to school and family. Then Raging Bull (91), where the violence is never allowed to become a pleasure. Then Breaking Away (86), a comedy about class with a bicycle race attached. After those, try Touching the Void, which is frightening even though the men telling the story are plainly alive.

87 films out now matching your filters, newest release first.Scores are Fi1m scores; critics’ and audience scores are on each page.