Derek Luke

Derek Luke on Glory Road: "I had to retrack every step that Bobby took. And it was almost like I was playing against him."

Rings false, belittling instead of honoring its sensitive subject with its twinkly score, kid-glove nobility and cloying payoffs.

Berg fashions a Spike Lee-esque prism through which he sheds light on the game, though Berg hasn't so much got game as he got highlight.

When coach Don Haskins sent out five African-American starters to face off against an all-white Wildcat team, barriers were broken, but Glory Road just hits the wall.

Plays like a political Heat, but for the sake of the scrupulously researched social history, a bit of artificially induced pulse-pounding can be forgiven.

Problematic as a narrative...[but] Lee's simply too smart and talented to make a dismissible film.