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http://reelreviews.blogspot.com/2004/10/friday-night-lights.html - Josh Williamson

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/movies/08LIGH.html?_r=0 - Josh Williamson

[]-Adam Nichols

[]- Adam Nichols

Wong, Ray. “Friday Night Lights.” //reelreviews.blogspot.com//. Ray’s Rave Reviews//,// 2004. Web. November 18, 2013 The review on //Friday Night Lights// by Ray Wong is a pretty solid movie review. It starts by saying that this movie deviates from the usual “Hollywood cliché of heroes and glory,” because it delivers a real message. Instead of the movie only focusing on the team and its goals, it gets into the lives of the players. Not too in depth to their lives, but enough to care about them. The review then says there is no grand plot, but each scene reveals something different that adds to the movie in its own way. The last thing he says is about the ending and that it is anti-sports movie. That its not about the destination, but about the journey.

The review on //Friday Night Lights// by Roger Ebert talks mostly about how high school football in the town of Odessa Texas is larger than life. He talks about how the kids on the team are under so much pressure to win games and how everywhere the players and coaches go, they get scrutinized about their past or upcoming games. He also goes in depth about star running back Boobie Miles played by Derek Luke and Charles Billingsley played by Tim McGraw. How Miles thinks that everything is God-given and he doesn’t have to work for anything until he gets hurt and sees his future go out the window. And Charles Billingsley is still in the past and does nothing but bully his son.

// **You need to read this Ebert review more carefully. It says WAY** more than what you have here. This summary is written as though the review never comments on the movie and just talks about the movie's plot--which is not the case. You also have nothing here to indicate whether or not Ebert even likes the film or not! Limit your summaries to simply saying whether or not the reviewer likes the film or not and his/her reasons for liking it or not. The Wong summary above is much better. ~ Dr. Wendt //