The best part of Pride of the Yankees is its grade-A love story.
– ,
TIME Magazine,
4 Aug 2008
fresh:
As a simple, moving story with an ironic heart-tug at the end, it serves as a fitting memorial to the real Lou, who called himself the luckiest man alive.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
For baseball and non-baseball fan alike, this sentimental, romantic saga of the NY kid who rose to the baseball heights and later met such a tragic end is well worth seeing.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
14 Mar 2007
rotten:
Surprisingly dreary and lifeless.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
21 Apr 2008
fresh:
Mate achieves exhilaration from his angle shooting and the feeling throughout out of a concave screen. Whatever feel of baseball this picture has is the result of his running camera.