Friday Night Lights(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.



Whip It(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.



The Way Back(2020)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Jack Cunningham was a high school basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.



Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

#1 NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. But when a French Formula One driver, makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby's talent and devotion are put to the test.



Offside(2006)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.



Chariots of Fire(1981)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.



Blades of Glory(2007)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. Presently, however, they've found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.



Redbelt(2008)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.



42(2013)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

This movie is about Jackie Robinson and his journey to becoming a Brooklyn Dodger and his life during that time.



Unbroken(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.



Hustle(2022)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A basketball scout discovers a phenomenal street ball player while in Spain and sees the prospect as his opportunity to get back into the NBA.



Girlfight(2000)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.



Ali(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.



The World's Fastest Indian(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.



Bad News Bears(2005)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.



Rocky Balboa(2006)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Thirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight; against the reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon.



Southpaw(2015)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction.



Trouble with the Curve(2012)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last.



Concussion(2015)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.



Blue Crush(2002)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.




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