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Arthur Agee is one of the stars of "Hoop Dreams," the greatest sports movie of all time according to critics.
At the heart of great sports is usually great drama. So, it's no surprise that Hollywood has frequently mined the arena of sports for storytelling inspiration.
Every sports fan has their favorite film depictions of athletic feats, but we decided to see what critics think are the best sports movies of all time.
The movies below are ranked according to their critic scores on Metacritic, however, in each slide, we also included the film's Rotten Tomatoes score and Rotten Tomatoes consensus. In the cases where two or more films had the same Metacritic score, the movies were ranked in order of the number of reviews. Furthermore, four films were omitted from this list because they had less than ten reviews, which felt like too small of a sample size to give an accurate representation of critical opinions on the film.
Among the notable movies to miss the cut is "Rocky" (69 on Metacritic), "Field of Dreams" (57) and "Bull Durham" (73). Still, some all-timers of the genre like "Hoosiers" managed to make the list, as well as modern classics like "Creed" and unimpeachable masterpieces like "Raging Bull" and "Hoop Dreams."