Review: &#39;Friday Night Lights&#39;: Lack of grit dims film
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The movie is too sanitized and not on par with the book. It ignores much for the sake of a PG-13 rating. The book &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; still stirs up anger in Odessa, Texas, for tackling the themes of racism and winning-is-everything.
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By Gary Levin  NBC has high hopes for Friday Night Lights, a new drama about a Texas high school football squad based on a best-selling book and feature film. Viewers will see some familiar names on the sidelines -- and not just the actors.
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Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar proves that a product doesn&#39;t have to be completely original to be very good.
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it&#39;s been more or less around the clock since the steamy lead-in to Monday Nihilist Football last week. Why we haven&#39;t seen this sort of firestorm in ... oh, about 10 months.
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The passions surrounding high school football are aptly displayed in &quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; a fabulous true-life portrait of the sport as it&#39;s practiced in the state of Texas -- and many other places.
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The problem with most bad movies about aspiring talents is that not enough of them, as Ed McMahon used to say, &quot;reach for the stars -- and catch &#39;em.
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In order to wrap your head around director Peter Bergâs gridiron saga Friday Night Lights, you need to approach it with a little statistical analysis.
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Peter Berg's "Friday Night Lights" is remarkably and ingeniously faithful to H. G. Bissinger's book of the same title.
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Unlike movies involving razor-toothed monsters in outer space or adorable hobbits searching for magical rings, comedies -- romantic or otherwise -- usually don&#39;t make great sequels.
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and it surely is not -- it isn&#39;t for lack of a great story, compelling characters, and a capable director. Really, the
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&#39;Shark Tale&#39; remains on top of the box office in its second week of release, after taking in an extra $31.7 million. Billy Bob Thornton&#39;s &#39;Friday Night Lights&#39; debuted in second place with $20.
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Blood and gore, rock and roll, naked  men wrestling, killer sheep, &quot;general freakdom,&quot; and an  audience that hoots and hollers its way through a movie are par  for the course at midnight screenings here.
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Technically a superb film, it suffers from a weak script.
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&quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; is one of the best books I&#39;ve read about American sports - in large part because it&#39;s about much more than sports.
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&quot;Surviving Christmas,&quot; a dark comedy that co-stars James Gandolfini of &quot;The Sopranos,&quot; could not survive the critics&#39; wrath and drew few moviegoers in its opening weekend.
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The pilot light of &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve&quot; is so low a whisper could blow it out, leaving nothing on-screen except a series of outtakes bereft of coherence, much less drama.
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The animated comedy held on to the number spot for a second weekend, taking in 31-point-seven (m) million dollars. Billy Bob Thornton&#39;s high school football drama &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; opened in second place, earning 20-point-six million dollars.