NY Times-
By DANIEL M. GOLD
Published: May 31, 2012
A reluctant new coach faces the challenge of leading a team of unhappy youths to a championship. On the way, setbacks are encountered and eventually overcome, and everyone, from the coach to the star to the last guy on the bench, learns something. Wouldn’t it be great if “Crooked Arrows,” a new movie about a Native American lacrosse team that takes on the prep school snobs, upended sports movie convention?
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Vancouver Sun-
By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News
The actors bear their narrative fate with a brave face and a patient smile, with Routh providing some sharp comic punctuation with artfully delivered sarcasm. The rest of the cast doesn't get enough dialogue to work around the hackneyed sentiments and cliched moments, but you can tell it's not their fault.
Even the most painful moments, including the scenes featuring a Yoda-like granny – complete with wooden walking stick and backward syntax – were obviously scripted with noble intent.
And in the end, it's these intangible forces that rescue the movie from a puddle of propagandist impulse and leaden drama. There is something fundamentally moving about people using sport to recreate themselves, their culture or their community.
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MOVIE GUY 24/7
Created on Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:12 Written by George Rother
After a succession of crappy early summer movies, it's like a breath of fresh air watching something as genuinely entertaining as Crooked Arrows, a sports drama about a Native American lacrosse team and the new coach who takes them out of last place and puts them on the path to the championship game. Yep, it's the ever popular underdog scenario that has defined countless sports dramas (Remember the Titans) and comedies (The Bad News Bears)! But in this case, director Steve Rash (Under the Rainbow) brings a little something different to the table, he combines a routine sports drama with a history lesson about the game of lacrosse. If this sounds slightly familiar, then you must be one of the ten people who saw last year's forgettable A Warrior's Heart which addresses this very same subject. To summarize, the game originated among the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy and it dates back about 1000 years. Now it's one of the most popular sports in the country. Undoubtedly, this means that we're bound to see many lacrosse-themed movies hit the multiplexes in the near future. After all, you can only make so many movies about baseball, football and hockey, right?
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