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Pawn Sacrifice
In the Cold War, the real legend is Bobbie Fisher, an old American chess player who found himself in front of two great powers at that time. Bobbie Fischer is meeting at one table in order to enter the biggest challenge in the game, which he excelled with the greatest Soviet player, Boris Spassky. It was his participation in the 1972 World Chess Championships, which was a real history and a major challenge to Fischer's world powers at the time.
27 November 1957, New York City, New York, USA
17 November 1983, Montreal, Québec, Canada
2 May 1972, Tokyo, Japan
7 July 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
September 23, 2015
Features a showboat performance from Tobey Maguire as the increasingly disturbed Fischer, along with a more composed one from Liev Schreiber as the taciturn Spassky.
September 24, 2015
Despite his best emoting, Maguire ultimately comes across as Peter Parker with a mole and a bad haircut.
April 16, 2016
Its desire to tell a small part of a historical firebrand's story is undermined by its reluctance - or inability - to get inside his mind.
May 24, 2016
[Zwick] makes the historic matches come to life, such that even non-players will appreciate the gripping excitement and intellectual rigour to be found in the battle of wits that is chess.
August 12, 2016
A film that works because of the great performances by the two leads. [Full review in Spanish]
September 25, 2015
Fine-looking but safe ...
May 03, 2016
'Pawn Sacrifice' takes all of those tropes and cranks them up to 11, far past the barometers of either believable human behavior or credible filmmaking.
September 24, 2015
Archived news reports and a Dick Cavett interview fit seamlessly into the dramatic recreations, as do era-specific rock tunes.
September 24, 2015
Genius is fascinating, particularly when it is complicated, as it always seems to be.
October 14, 2015
Like all of Zwick's works, it's perfectly watchable fare, but it's often infuriating for its refusal to dig deeper into its incredibly compelling subject.
August 29, 2016
There's no better metaphor for the film's plot than this sport. [Full review in Spanish]