Fever Pitch

The New York Times by

Just because a first-person analysis of a sociocultural phenomenon is fascinating in print, it should not necessarily be turned into a movie.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

The story is unmemorable, but the characters are engaging and their predicaments are all too recognizable.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

If you don't operate on the premise that soccer is the most important thing in the universe, you might not go along with everything in Fever Pitch.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge.

New York Post by Jonathan Foreman

Vastly superior to the small and independent films that have come out during the last six months.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

This frantic tale seems at once preachy and incoherent, collapsing into a more or less random collection of disconnected, unfocused scenes.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

It's an amiable enough picture, and genuinely insightful about the emotional appeal of devoted fandom.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

The entire matter of totemistic home-team dementia is roasted on a spit and then embraced for all its sorry pointlessness.