Rise

Name: Rise
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Released: June 24, 2022
Rating: 74
Cast: Dayo Okeniyi, Jake Schwencke, Lina Patsiou, Manish Dayal, Maximiliano Hernández

2022

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Disney+ | Release Date (Streaming): June 24, 2022 | PG

Starring: Dayo Okeniyi, Jake Schwencke, Lina Patsiou, Manish Dayal, Maximiliano Hernández, McColm Cephas Jr., Pilar Holland, Taylor Nichols, Uche Agada, Yetide Badaki

Summary: Audiences have never seen a story like that of the Antetokounmpos. After emigrating from Nigeria to Greece, Charles and Vera Antetokounmpo (Dayo Okeniyi and Yetide Badaki, respectively) struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. With their oldest son still in Nigeria withAudiences have never seen a story like that of the Antetokounmpos. After emigrating from Nigeria to Greece, Charles and Vera Antetokounmpo (Dayo Okeniyi and Yetide Badaki, respectively) struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. With their oldest son still in Nigeria with relatives, the couple were desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but found themselves undermined by a system that blocked them at every turn. When they weren’t selling items to tourists on the streets of Athens with the rest of the family, the brothers – Giannis (Uche Agada) and Thanasis (Ral Agada) – would play basketball with a local youth team. Latecomers to the sport, they discovered their great abilities on the basketball court and worked hard to become world class athletes, along with brother, Kostas (Jaden Osimuwa). With the help of an agent, Giannis entered the NBA Draft in 2013 in a long shot prospect that would change not only his life but the life of his entire family. And last season, Giannis and Thanasis helped bring the Milwaukee Bucks their first championship ring in 50 years, while Kostas played for the previous season champs, the Los Angeles Lakers.… Expand

Director: Akin Omotoso

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Sport

Rating: PG

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RogerEbert.com Aramide Tinubu

Jun 24, 2022

So often, Disney films smooth over some of the uglier bits that plague human society. However, in showcasing Charles and Vera's journey from Lagos to Istanbul and eventually Athens, award-winning Nigerian film director Akin Omotoso refuses to shy away from the racism, xenophobia, humiliation, and everything else the two encounter. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Jun 24, 2022

Rise scores as first-rate family filmmaking and a worthy reminder that some dreams can and do come true — big time. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Jun 27, 2022

It’s not simply a movie about how Giannis became one of the most dominant players in the league. It’s about why Giannis is so lovable. Read full review

Screen Rant Ferdosa Abdi

Jun 27, 2022

It is a solid sports biopic that aims to celebrate the cherished memories the Antetokounmpos have and their continued success as a united, happy, and prosperous family. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Jun 30, 2022

The movie’s points about immigration are made early; much of the rest amounts to good things eventually happening to talented and hard-working people. That might be a story, but it’s not much of a drama. Read full review

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BallStretcher

Jun 24, 2022

Tells a great and recent story in an entertaining way showing the family and how they rose to fame. No major problems with the movie.

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Mauro_Lanari

Jun 28, 2022

(Mauro Lanari)
A film that, migrants aside, could be liked as much by Meloni, Orban, Trump, as by their self-styled opponents of the progressive political area, says a lot about one of the greatest post-conciliar enigmas, the obstinacy with which for about half a century Ratzinger lashed out(Mauro Lanari)
A film that, migrants aside, could be liked as much by Meloni, Orban, Trump, as by their self-styled opponents of the progressive political area, says a lot about one of the greatest post-conciliar enigmas, the obstinacy with which for about half a century Ratzinger lashed out against a phantomatic new danger for the Church after atheism: relativism, a plurality of theoretical and practical paradigms antagonistic to magisterial doctrine. The history of our culture has recorded an attitude of diametrically opposite sign, the homologation towards a single globalized thought, the Thatcherian "TINA", "There Is No Alternative". Disney became one of its standard-bearers and at this point, in the current chaos, I no longer even know how much this this diverges from Christian disvalues.… Expand

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