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- 50VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonWhile the sheer novelty of a feature about lacrosse may be enough to generate some audience curiosity about A Warrior's Heart, this respectably crafted but thoroughly predictable indie rarely deviates from the gameplan followed by countless other dramas about self-absorbed young hotheads who get a shot at redemption on the playing field.
- A Warrior's Heart is factory-issue jingoism, yielding no surprises and frightfully few insights.
- 38Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe greatest lacrosse movie of the 21st century - and, unless I'm mistaken, the only lacrosse movie of the 21st century.
- 30Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinPerhaps most egregiously, director Mike Sears, working from Martin Dugard's awkwardly structured, subtext-free script, builds little excitement for the game of lacrosse, which comes off here as all sticks and legs and bad camera angles.
- With an emotional depth roughly equivalent to that of his lacrosse stick...
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt plays like a string of cliches linked together to form a movie with not a single moment of surprise or originality.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierStill, in movie terms, Warrior's Heart makes curling look like gladiatorial combat.
- 0Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneA Warrior's Heart is so inept at developing itself as a film that it hands in all of its devices to the soundtrack itself and becomes a music video.