Critic Reviews

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  You don't have to give a hoot about basketball to enjoy this movie. This is a movie about identifying with, admiring and responding to achievement in any form.

• Dave Hoekstra, Chicago Sun-Times

  It is a dream fulfilled.

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  Here's a twist on the plucky underdog sports movie. The Other Dream Team adds rock 'n' roll and eastern European history to the rah-rah mix.

• Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  If you root for documentaries with heart, "The Other Dream Team" is a slam dunk.

• Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

  Adding detailed historical context, the quirky feel-good story becomes a tragedy and a lesson. And that makes the victories resonate even more.

• Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

  Clearly, there's a story here. The documentary "The Other Dream Team" tells it in a smart, lively, if somewhat hectic fashion.

• Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  ...a deeply interesting, if conventionally structured and unflashy, documentary ... about the reassertion of national identity after generations of foreign oppression and the role of sport in nation building.

• Jean Lowerison, ReviewExpress.com

  The Other Dream Team is both an exceptional and exceptionally inspiring film.

• Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

  In an era when so much of the focus in sports is on the glam and the glitz, it's nice to be reminded that it can still be about heart and soul, too.

• Matt Prigge, Philadelphia Weekly

  The Other Dream Team becomes less a simple paean to the triumph of the human spirit and more an admission of life's complexity and messiness.

• Dan Fienberg, HitFix

  The Other Dream Team wasn't the 1992 Lithuanian Basketball movie that I necessarily wanted, but it could absolutely be the 1992 Lithuanian Basketball movie that you want, assuming you want such a thing.

• Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  Shows sports can have other goals besides winning.

• Bob Bloom, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

  "The Other Dream Team" is a saga of hope, courage and overcoming adversity and how a sport and its players helped a nation rekindle its voice and place on the world stage.

• Austin Kennedy, Sin Magazine

  The lack of focus makes for a lackluster Documentary.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  This true-life sports story has a little of the same magic "Hoosiers" has.

• Sarah Boslaugh, PopMatters

  ...a story that should be heard and remembered, because it reminds you that sometimes a sporting event carries meaning far outside the confines of the sport itself.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  An exceptional inspirational sports movie, precisely because the stakes were so high.

• Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix

  Quite often the film veers away from their stories to become a flag-waving work of Lithuanian nationalism.

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