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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★

  I totally get why this movie was not especially well-regarded in 1996. It does tick all of the same boxes as Bull Durham (underdog sports movie crossed with rom-com with a horny edge). At a glance, it feels like an easy retread.

  But this is the kind of movie that time has been very kind to because you rarely see anything like it anymore; a film for grown-ups (who also want to have a lot of sex) that features very little plot, zero special effects, and a lot of people sitting around and talking about stuff. (There is far more talk than golf, although a fair amount of the talk is about golf.) The sports movie backdrop is just that;…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★

  Turns out you can be a maverick at golf. Who knew

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  Review by MichaelEternity ★★★★½ 6

  At his best, Ron Shelton was the Cameron Crowe of the sports-related romantic comedy. Conventional checkmarks in conflict, romance, and success are reached, but he takes his time doing it, in his own shambolic voice, giving us the deep timeless pleasure of his rhapsodic reveries about life, love and the game in question. I always remember "Tin Cup" being a good movie with a little something special about it, but now I see that it's a great movie all the way through. It could be idolized any number of ways - as a perennial hang-out picture, as a feel-good uplifter, as a classically indulgent and mega-charming '90s rom-com standard, as a thematic lecture on the importance of personal victory over…

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  Review by Robert Franco

  "ya know a man goes through what i've gone through, he's supposed to learn something. i'm trynna figure out what i learned... you think i learned anything?"

  yeah, what good pussy does to a mf

  good flick! now i'm gonna watch the 2008 us open 18 hole playoff :-)

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  Review by Nightwing04 ★★★

  52 Week Challenge 

  Week 3: A film starring Kevin Costner (in honor of his birthday) 

  Happy belated birthday Kevin! 

  Tin Cup was described to me as “Challengers, but golf” and while that’s not entirely the truth, I can see it somewhat. It’s a lot like Bull Durham with a small romance rivalry with a focus on sports. 

  The performances are solid and Kevin is definitely the strongest part of the film, but aside from him nothing about the performances were particularly impressive. I did like the golf scenes and thought they were really well filmed. 

  Overall, Tin Cup is a fine enough film and it’s not totally unwatchable. I’d be open to watching it again at some point, even if that’s not anytime soon.

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  Review by Alan Sepinwall ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★★

  Kevin Costner was on the down slope of his career when he popped up in this very entertaining romantic sports comedy. Directed by Ron Shelton of Bull Durham fame, this reunited star Costner with a man who relishes in making movies centered around sports. Swapping Baseball for Golf this time around, it may lack a certain Susan Sarandon's sex appeal, but it makes up for it with some great interplay between Costner and best buddy Cheech Marin.
  Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy (Costner) is a driving range pro who is one step up from a bum. Lacking ambition or any sort of drive in life, he is suddenly reinvigorated when a beautiful psychologist (Rene Russo) arrives for golf lessons. Attracted to…

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  Review by Meg ★ 4

  I may seem a little on edge right now, but I have major ear infection and felt like my head was gonna explode all day and the internet wasn't working and I didn't have my DVDs and the TV at the house I am sitting at wasn't working EXCEPT THE. GOLF. CHANNEL.

  THERE IS A THING CALLED THE GOLF CHANNEL.

  AND IT PLAYED THIS MOVIE FROM THE 90S ABOUT GOLF.

  AND I AM ON EDGE, BECAUSE MY ENTIRE FACE HURTS AND I HAVE HAD TO WATCH THREE '90S KEVIN COSTNER FILMS IN A ROW. BECAUSE OF A CRUEL TWIST OF FATE THAT IS FATE CLEARLY LOVES '90S KEVIN COSTNER.

  AND THIS GOLF MOVIE WAS LIKE TWO AND HALF HOURS LONG AND IT PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN 75 MINUTES LONG, BUT KEVIN COSTNER ONLY ACTS IN FILMS WHICH ARE AT LEAST 45 MINUTES TOO LONG. THIS IS APPARENTLY THE WORLD'S ONLY GOLF EPIC. I HATE EVERYTHING.

  Please make it all stop.

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  Review by DreamScape40 ★★★★★

  Felt in the mood for Tin Cup.
  Been many suns ago since last viewed this.

  One of the locations where they filmed was at the Tubac Country Club in Tubac AZ. Beautiful location.

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  Review by BrashBelle ★★★★½

  Tin Cup is the best golf movie, it’s better than Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore. Yes, that is a bold statement but accurate. Kevin Costner plays a washed-up golfer who works at a driving range in the middle of nowhere. Cheech also works at the range but without Chong. Enter Rene Russo who wants to take golf lessons because her boyfriend played by Don Johnson is a golf pro. Johnson is also Costner’s arch-enemy and he hates old people, children, and dogs. Tin Cup is immensely entertaining and definitely has a multiple rewatch factor. The ending is unpredictable, thank god for originality in a sports movie.

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  Review by Ryan Bingham ★★★★

  The opening song is horrendous, it hurts the opening shots, which are great. The romance plot line is decent. Costner can do no wrong in sports films, I don't know how he does it, but it almost always works. There aren't enough serious golf films out there, there needs to be more.

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  Review by Eric Szyszka ★★½

  Happy Gilmore move over here comes Serious Gilmore