Pawn Sacrifice

Bleecker Street | Release Date: September 16, 2015

7.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 111 Ratings

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jhepSep 29, 2015

........the direction of this film is SO HEAVY HANDED that I soon felt numb and then indifferent and bored........it feels like a 1970s Made-for-TV movie that used to make a lot of sense when you were 12 years old i.e., everything gets........the direction of this film is SO HEAVY HANDED that I soon felt numb and then indifferent and bored........it feels like a 1970s Made-for-TV movie that used to make a lot of sense when you were 12 years old i.e., everything gets TELEGRAPHED to you in scene after scene and those ominous words "dumbed down" soon hover over every scene...... the scattered all-over-the-map script seems to be searching in vain for a focus to help organize the material.......to moderate this criticism somewhat, I would add that biography can be one of the most unforgiving film genres there is.......aesthetically- speaking people often end up living extremely unsatisfying lives !… Expand

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shaunmedFeb 6, 2016

Bobby Fisher is not nearly the best chess player nor worthy of the multitudinous movies about him sheerly as he is an uninteresting character. Just not that interesting.

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