It’s well-structured, handsomely shot, and features some impressive acting. The thing is there’s just not that much to make it stand out from the crowd either.
Goalie
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Canada · 2019
1h 59m
Director Adriana Maggs
Starring Mark O'Brien, Kevin Pollak, Georgina Reilly, Steve Byers
Genre Drama
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This film dramatizes the life of Terry Sawchuk, a legendary hockey goalie from the NHL's "Original Six" era. The film follows Sawchuk from his difficult childhood in Winnipeg to his successful NHL career in the 1950s and 60s, where he was subjected to intense injury and struggled with depression and alcoholism.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Brad Wheeler
Director Maggs tells a tough, sympathetic story in an imaginative way that makes Goalie feel like a war story.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The episodic screenplay lacks narrative momentum, and the use of faux-documentary commentary by older versions of Sawchuk's colleagues (played by actors) doesn't come across convincingly.
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
A probing though ponderously episodic drama that ultimately feels as stitched together as Sawchuk’s frequently unmasked mug.
O’Brien and Pollack have nice chemistry, and the darkened rinks, offices and under-lit houses give the picture a pervasive, tragic gloom that the sketchy but conventionally structured story never lives down to.
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