Draft Day Film Review (2024)

1. Draft Day movie review & film summary (2014) | Roger Ebert

  • Apr 11, 2014 · The star-studded and cameo-heavy “Draft Day” arrives to offer viewers a behind-the-scenes look at how an NFL team can be broken or salvaged.

  • Both too “inside baseball” for non-NFL fans to care and not nearly character-driven enough at the same time, this film about the NFL draft is cluttered, noisy, and often nonsensical.

2. Draft Day | Rotten Tomatoes

  • 163 Reviews · View All Draft Day photos · Trailer 1

  • Sonny Weaver Jr. is the general manager of the Cleveland Browns. One of pro football's most important days, NFL draft day, is drawing near, but Sonny has much more on his mind than just which players to recruit. His lover is pregnant, and the team's owner wants to fire him. After Sonny accepts a deal with Seattle that nets him that team's first-round pick, he immediately wonders if he has made the right choice for himself and the Browns.

3. Draft Day review – Kevin Costner wheels and deals in a Moneyball ...

  • Oct 4, 2014 · A solid sports movie of sorts. Costner remains strangely watchable.

  • Kevin Costner is back on solid ground as an American football manager grappling with the complexities of the draft, writes Mark Kermode

4. DRAFT DAY Movie Review: Kevin Costner's Super Power Is ...

  • Apr 11, 2014 · Draft Day is a talky, adult movie in the sense that it isn't full of action, intrigue or special effects. It's kind of sub-Sorkin in that it's ...

  • A solid, smart and wholesome movie about buying and trading human beings.

5. Film Review: Draft Day | Peanuts and Popcorn

6. Draft Day - Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Despite the overall acting and the less-than-compelling subplot involving Sonny's personal life, the film is terrific. It's smart, engaging, uplifting. It's ...

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7. Draft Day: Film Review - The Hollywood Reporter

  • Apr 10, 2014 · Although almost always engaging and seemingly true to the world it depicts, Draft Day is never quite as funny as you somehow think it's going to ...

  • Kevin Costner plays the general manager of the Cleveland Browns in director Ivan Reitman's football drama.

8. Film Review: Draft Day (2014) - A Mighty Fine Blog

  • May 13, 2014 · Draft Day is an utter mess of a film. It's weighed down with what feels like a whole extra movie's worth of backstory, much of which distracts from the central ...

  • A blog about film and television, offering reviews and features on new and classic film.

9. Film Review: 'Draft Day' - Variety

  • Apr 10, 2014 · The climactic draft proves more than worth the wait, and Costner is a particular pleasure to watch in it, hustling to and fro and playing all ...

  • After spending much of his career being likened to “High Noon” star Gary Cooper, Kevin Costner gets a ticking-clock movie to call his very own in “Draft Day.”

10. Movie Review: “Draft Day” (Ivan Reitman, USA 2014)

  • Apr 26, 2014 · The film is the story of a day in the life of Sonny Weaver, Jr., the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns, as he makes a series of bizarre moves on the day ...

  • Ivan Reitman is still around 30 years after directing Ghostbusters (USA 1984). In that time, he has directed such other classics as . . . okay, so he’s directed nothing else that anyone shoul…

11. Movie Review : Draft Day (2014) - Dead End Follies

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  • I love professional sports. They are more than just entertainment to me. I believe that they are the invisible thread that binds us men together, regardless of our origins, religious beliefs or booze preferences. They are rather simple languages that anybody can understand. Draft Da ywas made for

12. Draft Day user reviews - Metacritic

  • Draft Day is a suspenseful sports drama without the sports, relying on the business and management side of sports teams. The film uses unique editing techniques ...

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13. BRB Movie Review: "Draft Day" - Battle Red Blog

  • Apr 14, 2014 · Captain Ron reviews the latest film from Hollywood that portrays an NFL general manager, played by Kevin Costner, who navigates through one crisis after ...

  • And you thought YOUR mock drafts were creative!

14. Movie Review: “Draft Day” - Iowa State Daily

  • Apr 22, 2014 · In hopes that he can land their team's next franchise quarterback, the Cleveland Browns' general manager [GM], Sonny Weaver [Kevin Costner] ...

  • In hopes that he can land their team’s next franchise quarterback, the Cleveland Browns’ general manager [GM], Sonny Weaver [Kevin Costner] trades up for the first overall pick in the draft. Not only is Weaver looking to save his job, but he is also looking to save the future of his team. In Weaver’s desperate...

15. Movie Review: Draft Day - Box Office Prophets

  • Apr 15, 2014 · Draft Day is at its best and most absorbing when it focuses on the deals, politics and inner-league drama that undoubtedly ensue on the day ...

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16. 'Draft Day' Reality Checks - Sports Illustrated

  • Apr 16, 2014 · The movie did portray a realistic view of the all-consuming nature of what it takes to be an NFL general manager, including Weaver ...

  • The Kevin Costner movie had unprecedented access to capture the inner workings of the NFL draft and how front office executives go about their business. I lived that life for a decade—here’s what Hollywood got right and wrong

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