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Goalie

Goalie

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  • Canada
  • 2019
  • · 119m

Director Adriana Maggs
Cast Mark O'Brien, Kevin Pollak, Georgina Reilly, Steve Byers, Éric Bruneau
Genre Drama

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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What are critics saying?

88

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.

60

Film Threat by Alex Saveliev

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.

50

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

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.

40

Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen

A probing though ponderously episodic drama that ultimately feels as stitched together as Sawchuk’s frequently unmasked mug.

40

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.