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Matthau's perfectly restrained, brilliantly comic performance holds it together.
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[VIDEO ESSAY] Rife with every non-politically-correct social tic that '70s America had to offer, "The Bad News Bears" (1976) is a sports comedy that serves as a cultural benchmark.
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An extremely funny adult-child comedy film.
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Remains the best film ever made about kids and sports.
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Amiably engrossing satire on the 'win ethic' that offers a take-it-or-leave-it approach to its serious points about enforcing precociousness on kids, but consistently delights with its panoramic comic invention.
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A small winner.
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If all kids' movies were like this, you wouldn't need to drag parents to the multiplexes.
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[Ritchie] keeps the sentimentality in check most of the time and obtains first-rate performers from his miniature cast all of the time.
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This charming, funny film takes a gentle poke at Little League baseball and the American obsession with winning.
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Michael Ritchie keeps his dead-end cynicism in check and produces a genuinely funny comedy about a Little League team managed by a lovably drunken Walter Matthau.
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[Ritchie] directs scenes for comedy even in the face of his disturbing material and that makes the movie all the more effective; sometimes we laugh, and sometimes we can't, and the movie's working best when we're silent.
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