Gavin O Connor

Miracle capitalizes on its understanding of team dynamics: the bonding of pain and gain alike, the ownership of integrity over ego, the satisfaction of communal accomplishment.

Relentlessly dour, filled with unsympathetic characters, and made out of cardboard melodrama. It's the last of those sins that is unforgivable.

Undaunted, O'Connor straightens his spine of melodrama and focuses on the task of building up the film's emotional muscle.