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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerEveryone spouts nicely turned baloney elevating golf to the level of a religious experience, which grows tedious fairly quickly. The film almost works, though, if you view the whole thing as a very, very dry comedy.
- 30VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibIn this shoestring outing, Susan Streitfeld ("Female Perversions") opts for an unsettling mix of low-tech cinematic tricks and temporal reshufflings to simulate the process of enlightenment to sometimes laudable, usually ludicrous effect.
- 25San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSan Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubDon't invest too much in the word "Golf" at the beginning of the title. Golf in the Kingdom is arguably less of a sports movie than the first "Harry Potter." (At least someone won that game of quidditch ...)
- 0Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe film, for all its trite lessons, forgets that people mainly play golf because they enjoy it.
- 0Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerFrom the outset, Streitfeld hopscotches back and forth over her tale's 24 hours with a self-conscious aesthetic affectation (overlapping imagery, shifting camera speeds, elliptical edits) that demolishes any intelligible character or plot development, resulting in a story comprised of pretentious meditative fragments.