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starstarstarstar Hannah Brown - NY Post
starstarstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Peter Stack - SF Chronicle
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Kendall Morgan - Dallas Morning News
starstarstar Ken Fox - TV Guide
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar A.O. Scott - NY Times
starstarstar Ernest Hardy - Film.com
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW

So much more than a rah-rah sports film or noble 'free Tibet' movie, The Cup is simply an amazingly original, exhilarating film

- Hannah Brown

[I]t's one of those bogus, we're-all-the-same-under-our-sarongs movies that invites the viewer to have his piety and eat it, too

- Owen Gleiberman

The Cup

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Young monks obsessed with soccer hope to watch The World Cup finals on television at their monastery. Jamyang Lodro, Orgyen Tobgya, Neten Chokling, Raj Baboon, Lama Chonjor, Ngawang Gelek, Dundrup Gyamtso, Kunsang Nyima, Pema Tshundup, Palden Gyatso, Kelsang, Dzigar Kongtrul. Director: Khyentse Norbu (1999, G)

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