The Miracle Season's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
Problem is, every time the movie gets near an authentic emotion, it barely pauses before making a run to the next Katy Perry song cue. (Seriously, both ?Roar? and ?Firework? are featured herein.) Given the care that the adult and teen actors invested in trying to honor their real-life counterparts, this feels lazy.
Variety
Even if you see through the benign (manipulative) strategies of ?The Miracle Season,? which isn?t hard to do, resistance is futile. You will surrender. You?ll feel the tear on your cheek, the lump in your throat, the reverent huggy glory of it all.
The Wrap
It?s not a film, it?s a tribute, and unfortunately, one to the memory of a young woman who would be better honored by people actually ?living like Line? than watching a formulaic, fictionalized retelling of her community learning what that means.
New York Times
That The Miracle Season is based on a true story makes it tough to endure and to review, because it?s no pleasure to report that filmmakers have turned real-life tragedy and tenacity into a manipulative weepie.
The Hollywood Reporter
Not only does Miracle Season lack the expected structure: An hour into the picture, the script hasn't given us a single other player on the Trojans to care about.