McFarland

Dominée par le solide Kevin Costner, l'interprétation est globalement satisfaisante, avec une mention pour le jeu habité de Carlos Pratts dans le rôle de l'opiniâtre Thomas.

Les passages obligatoires de défaites à victoires se déroulent presque trop longuement dans ce film un peu trop prévisible qui sort la fin de semaine des Oscars.

Give McFarland, USA your time, especially if you have a teenage athlete in your family.

McFarland USA is a pleasant film that manages to make your heart swell up a bit. The characters are engaging, and Costner is really solid as a Coach discovering inspiration from his athletes as well as his family.

Along the way, McFarland, USA gives us a vital sense of hardscrabble lives and dreams of glory deferred. All cheers here are fully earned.

Because, finally, McFarland, USA is a paean to family and community. And a story about why, even as so much of what we see about the so-called ''American Dream'' is tinged with disillusion and corruption, the United States remains a land of some kind of opportunity for millions of people who come here to do back-breaking work, day in, day out.