Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Critic Reviews
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Empire Olly Richards
Eddie The Eagle turns a long-running joke of British sport into a crowd-pleasing story of inspiration. It's a solid gold winner.
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75
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The Playlist Russ Fischer
This gentle comedy is more interested in doing justice to the spirit of his achievement and the style of late-'80s comedy than the details of his life, but the resulting confection is sweet and simple.
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67
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The Film Stage
Eddie isn't groundbreaking by any means, but effortlessly fun, packed with irony, and ready to woo even the most unathletic children through countless TV reruns.
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55
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TheWrap Alonso Duralde
As cinema, it's an avalanche of feel-good clichés, but as an audience-pleasing machine, it relentlessly pursues its goal and will probably win over viewers who surrender to it.
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50
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Screen International Tim Grierson
As sunny as Eddie The Eagle is, its greatest liability is that it never pushes itself, content to let an amiable true-life tale be turned into a generic genre exercise.
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50
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The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
The essence of what made the man inspiring to so many - it's not the winning, but the effort that's important - comes through with gonglike clarity in Dexter Fletcher's film, a straight-down-the-ramp sports tale that plays to the average man's dreams of momentary greatness.
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Variety Andrew Barker
The pic gets quite a lot of mileage out of several note-perfect musical choices...and Fletcher includes just enough odd angles and quirky compositions to suggest a slightly stranger, loopier vision for this film lurking somewhere beneath.
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Slant Magazine Kenji Fujishima
It remains more committed to printing the uplifting legend of its title character than in actually examining the human beings underneath.
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