Head Games
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Metascore
63 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critics What's this?

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  • Summary: Head Games is a revealing documentary about the silent concussion crisis in American sports. Athletes from the professional to the youth levels share their personal struggles in dealing with the devastating and long-term effects of concussions, an epidemic fueled by the 'leave everything on the field' culture so prominent in American sport. (Variance Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    Sep 19, 2012
    83
    Head Games is particularly devastating when it shifts from the NFL and NHL, where brutality and headshots are a given, to girls' soccer and under-14 football leagues, where still-developing young necks and skulls make kids perhaps more vulnerable to head trauma than their professional counterparts.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Matt Singer
    Sep 18, 2012
    60
    The results are, cinematically speaking, a little diffuse, but any parent who's contemplating whether they should sign their kids up for Pop Warner this fall may want to watch this first.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Nordine
    Sep 19, 2012
    50
    While Head Games does feature a number of articulate and consistently intelligent talking-head interviews, it's ultimately not a satisfying advocacy documentary.

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