Reviews

• An inspirational sports movie, soccer subdivision, and it stops at every expected station of the cross on its road to the triumphant against-all-odds finale (in sudden-death overtime, yet). Yet it also feels appealingly handmade in a way most jock dramas don't.

  Ty Burr - The Boston Globe
  
  19 January 2013

• A familiar underdog story told with unusual sensitivity.

  Jeannette Catsoulis - The New York Times
  
  19 January 2013

• Directed by Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth"), the movie is heavy on hokum but easy to like, thanks to the spunky Schroeder.

  Desson Thomson - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013

• An earnest, well-acted, poignant drama that nevertheless runs afoul of sports movie clichés.

  - Los Angeles Times
  
  19 January 2013

• You miss the knockabout edge of "Bend It Like Beckham" -- though the ending, in its Pavlovian sports-flick way, pumps you up.

  Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
  
  19 January 2013