Editing Any Given Sunday (section)

==Release==

===Box office===
''Any Given Sunday'' was a financial success; made on a budget of $55 million, it went on to earn $100.2 million worldwide.<ref name="boxofficemojo.com"/>

===Reception===
The film received mixed reviews. [[Rotten Tomatoes]] gave an aggregated score of 52% positive from 127 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The site's consensus states: "Sometimes entertaining, but overall ''Any Given Sunday'' is a disappointment coming from Oliver Stone."<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/any_given_sunday/ "Any Given Sunday"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011050829/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/any_given_sunday/ |date=October 11, 2016 }}. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 17, 2010.</ref> On [[Metacritic]], ''Any Given Sunday'' has an aggregated score of 52%, based on reviews from 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.<ref>[https://www.metacritic.com/movie/any-given-sunday "Any Given Sunday"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511044825/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/any-given-sunday |date=May 11, 2019 }} ''Metacritic.com''</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B−" on a scale of A+ to F.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Any Given Sunday" in the search box|publisher=[[CinemaScore]]|access-date=June 14, 2021|archive-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102130540/https://www.cinemascore.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]''<nowiki/>'s [[Andrew Johnston (critic)|Andrew Johnston]] wrote, "It's often been said of films about sports that smaller balls equal better movies. ''Any Given Sunday'' explodes that theory, and not just because of the incredible intensity of its gridiron action. Oliver Stone's best movie in many years—and one of his finest ever—looks at the world of professional football from almost every conceivable angle, but it never tries to be the definitive statement on the subject. A surprisingly balanced film that merges Stone's hyperkinetic style with a character-centric narrative approach reminiscent of [[John Sayles]] and [[Robert Altman]] at their best, ''Sunday'' proves that powerful human drama and [[MTV]] visual pyrotechnics actually can coexist after all."<ref>Time Out New York, December 30, 1999-January 6, 2000, p. 87</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' also gave the film a mostly positive review, awarding it 3 stars out of 4, but criticized its length. "I guess I recommend the movie because the dramatic scenes are worth it. Pacino has some nice heart-to-hearts with Quaid and Foxx, and the psychology of the veteran coach is well-captured in the screenplay by Stone and John Logan. But if some studio executive came along and made Stone cut his movie down to two hours, I have the strangest feeling it wouldn't lose much of substance and might even play better."<ref>[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/any-given-sunday-1999 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424001455/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/any-given-sunday-1999 |date=April 24, 2019 }} ''Rogerebert.com'', Retrieved May 21, 2019</ref>

Conversely, [[Richard Schickel]] of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' criticized the story as being "standard", and stated "(a)lmost three hours of this jitter deteriorates from bravura filmmaking to annoying mannerism, and Any Given Sunday ends up less than the sum of its many, often interesting parts."<ref name="rottentomatoes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/any_given_sunday/reviews/?type=top_critics|title=Any Given Sunday - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes|website=www.rottentomatoes.com|access-date=April 4, 2014|archive-date=April 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407123504/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/any_given_sunday/reviews/?type=top_critics|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rick Groen of ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' wrote that the story was "(c)hoc-a-bloc with manly blather about sacrifice and honour and rugged individuals pulling together for the greater glory of the team".<ref name="rottentomatoes.com" />

Elaborating on many critics' shared observations<ref name="rottentomatoes.com" /> that the movie was "hyperkinetic", Jack Matthews of the ''[[Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News]]'' stated that "the sensation we get from the blizzard of images and teeth-jarring sound effects is of having our head used as the football".

[[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' criticized Dennis Quaid as too old for his part, Cameron Diaz as "not up to the dramatic demands of her unsympathetic character", and the "ludicrously upbeat" ending, but complimented the portrayal of in-game action, in which the "kinetic furor of the game sequences helps camouflage the weaknesses of a screenplay that is a mechanically contrived series of power struggles".<ref name="NYT122299">Stephen Holden, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/22/movies/film-review-end-zone-as-war-zone-hut.html], ''The New York Times'', December 22, 1999.</ref>

===Director's cut===
When released to [[Home video|home-video]] on [[VHS]] and DVD, a new [[director's cut]] by Oliver Stone was used. Due to the package listing, "6 minutes of previously unseen footage" and a running time of 156 minutes, many{{who|date=August 2024}} assumed that the theatrical cut was 150 minutes, and that Stone had added six minutes of footage. In actuality, the theatrical cut ran 162 minutes; 12 minutes were deleted for the director's cut, and six minutes of new footage were added. Stone said that these changes were made to help the film's pacing.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}