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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Apr 2013

The film elevates the story of Jackie Robinson to that of cornball legend rather than just honoring his legitimately uplifting, heroic saga…

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By Joanna Langfield (398) for The Movie Minute (398) on 09 Apr 2013

What Jackie Robinson achieved, on and off the baseball field, is the stuff of legend. It deserves to be…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 09 Apr 2013

Given Helgeland's rep as a screenwriter (including an Oscar for 1997's L.A…

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By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Apr 2013

If you want a sense of a true all-American hero, this film is a fine place to start…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 09 Apr 2013

It would be hard to overstate Jackie Robinson's importance to baseball and to American history, but 42 nearly does…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 09 Apr 2013

It’s a perfectly unexceptional but slickly made, sincerely acted, often entertaining, sometimes manipulative and always watchable blend of…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 Apr 2013

[VIDEO ESSAY] Writer-director Brian Helgeland's methodically balanced biopic about revered baseball legend Jackie Robinson manages the near-impossible…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for AALBC.com (174) on 09 Apr 2013

An emotionally-draining biopic featuring Oscar-quality performances from Harrison Ford and Chad Boseman in what is easily Hollywood's best…

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By David Germain (226) for Associated Press (1,685) on 09 Apr 2013

For all the hate and hostility it depicts, 42 is a film about decent-hearted people. Hate can be infectious, but so can decency…

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By Gabe Toro (98) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Apr 2013

42 is excessively retro, neglecting the urge to pepper scenes with comic relief or oppressing, flashy conflict…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 09 Apr 2013

Earnest, righteous, historically accurate and often entertaining…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 09 Apr 2013

Jackie Robinson helps break baseball's color bar when he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Moving account of an American icon…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 09 Apr 2013

Helgeland has given us an impressive introduction to one of the most important men in U.S. history. But you can’t help wanting more…

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By Louis Black (103) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Apr 2013

Boseman as Jackie Robinson and Beharie as Rachel Robinson both deliver terrific performances, and the cast of managers and ballplayers –…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Apr 2013

Pretty when it should be gritty and grandiosely noble instead of just telling it like it was, 42 needlessly trumps up but still can't entirely…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Apr 2013

A relentlessly formulaic biopic that succeeds at transforming one of the most compelling sports narratives of the 20th century into a home…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Apr 2013

42 is competent, occasionally rousing and historically respectful — but it rarely rises above standard, old-fashioned biography fare…

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