The Sandlot is derivative, often simplistic and saccharine, but it can’t be denied just how well it works as a coming-of-age adventure appreciated by audiences of all stripes.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2025

It’s a charming picture, capturing the world from a kid perspective.

Full Review | May 1, 2025

Everything comes together in The Sandlot with perfection to deliver one of the best baseball movies in cinematic history.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 13, 2024

...an amiable, irresistibly nostalgic drama...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2023

This is a fraudulent baseball film that's more cartoonish than real.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 30, 2023

At the very least, it serves as a reminder to always have a spare baseball handy any time you go out to play in the park in case it gets taken by an absurdly enormous dog over the fence.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 7, 2023

Here's another '90s movie that was beloved by boys ... yet it probably won't hold the same charge for viewers not privy to that nostalgic vibe.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2021

That's what The Sandlot repeatedly does: Confound your expectations. It's a charming and hilarious flick for kids (boys in particular will eat it up) that feels remarkably fresh, even during its occasional foray into cliché land.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2021

The Sandlot is a classic because so much of the film focuses on time spent off the field. It's not a movie about baseball players, it's a movie about kids who happen to play baseball.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2021

Utilizes effective editing, appropriately juvenile dialogue, and laugh-out-loud humor while capturing adolescent adventure with a genuine sense of innocence and nostalgia.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 24, 2020

The Sandlot isn't just a baseball movie, it's a bright, uncynical look back at the joys of childhood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2020

After a "Porky's"-style segment dealing with puppy lust, the film then segues to its better second half.

Full Review | May 30, 2019

The Sandlot is scene after scene after scene of nostalgia-glasses-viewed perfection.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2019

Those in the mood to return to the age of innocence might want to try The Sandlot.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2019

A scruffy underdog yarn that will appeal not only to kids but also to their thirty- or fortysomething parents.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2019

It throws a proverbial curveball at convention, relying instead on baseball's ultimate companion - nostalgia - to pluck its emotional and memorable strings.

Full Review | Oct 16, 2018

The Sandlot almost does for baseball what A Christmas Story does for the holiday season. Evans clearly can still feel what it was like to be a kid, and his silly impetuousness gives his film its charm.

Full Review | May 30, 2018

Though all but the two lead children are mediocre, the adult actors, including Karen Allen and James Earl Jones, are first- rate.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2017

Rarely has 101 minutes seemed longer.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 16, 2017

It's a bonafide masterpiece that warrants admiration, even two decades after its release.

Full Review | May 10, 2016