Bobby Fischer Against The World
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 6, 2011
User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8

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  1. jdb26354
    Sep 9, 2011
    10
    Documentary of chess prodigy pursues world cliché championship. Left alone by a hippie mother with a bottle of Drano and a book on chess tactics, the 6-year old Fischer takes the slower but surer poison of intellectual obsession resulting in worldwide acclaim and emotional isolation. More mysterious than the origins of Fischerâ

Awards & Rankings

16
#16 Best TV Season of 2011

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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Jun 6, 2011
    80
    [Garbus] captures the epic, almost mythical scope of his talent and thus the tragic height of his fall.
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  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Jun 6, 2011
    75
    This intelligent, sensitive portrait effectively explores a lost childhood and remarkable mind. It's engrossing to a point, then tiresome.
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  3. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Jun 6, 2011
    100
    So far it's the televised documentary film of the year, with its truths stranger than fiction from opening move to checkmate.
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