Top 10 Movies: Sports
The highest-graded sports movies we have reviewed, best first.
DangalA wrestling biopic that sells every bout and lets Aamir Khan's father stay difficult, even after the script starts cheering him on.Read the review
Million Dollar BabyEastwood's boxing film is sold as an underdog story, turns into something far darker, and its craft never flinches from the turn.
RushPeter Morgan turns the 1976 Formula One season into a sharp two-hander about opposite ways to live, and Daniel Brühl's Niki Lauda steals it.
The FighterThe best boxing picture of its decade is barely about boxing, and the bouts are the weakest thing in it.
Hoop DreamsFive years of tape on two Chicago kids, and still the best American film about how the escape hatch is rigged.
RockyA small, sad, beautifully acted picture about a nobody, wearing the costume of a boxing movie.
The Slaughter RuleMorse and Gosling circle each other for two hours in a film too elliptical to close its own argument.
Remember the TitansWashington and Patton are playing something far tougher than the Bruckheimer package built around them will allow.
Children of HeavenA lost pair of pink shoes carries a whole film, and the two child leads make its simplicity feel earned rather than calculated.
The BoxerThe boxing and the ceasefire politics are exactly observed; the love story meant to bind them is a placeholder with a great actress inside it.
