Review of 42 (2013) by Ted D — 17 Oct 2013

It will always bug me when actors attempt to portray athletes.

This review of 42 (2013) was written by Ted D on 17 Oct 2013.

42 has generally received positive reviews.

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By Dardowell (1) on 06 Apr 2019

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By Daniel W (1,325) on 30 May 2017

42 fails to display much drama or intrigue in a story that should be rich with both…

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By Jacob B (1,524) on 01 Jan 2017

A truly inspirational sports biopic that successfully manages to focus on its two subject matters of baseball and racism back when black people…

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By Josh M (1,729) on 06 Feb 2017

Massive baseball fan, massively let down…

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Love this movie as a baseball fan and I did some research and about 80% of what is in this movie actually happened…

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By Josh N (173) on 05 Sep 2017

42 was one of my favorite movies. It was inspiring and really good…

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By Brad R (338) on 21 Mar 2017

Some elements of the story omitted due to Hollywoodization. This film sported, pun pun, the pitcher signals, with 4 or 5 appearing…

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By Lisa S (1,201) on 07 Mar 2018

A dramatization of the beginning of the professional career of Jackie Robinson, the first black person to play in Major League Baseball…

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Chadwick Boseman has been brilliantly playing the biggest African American figures for years, and yet no script has matched in weight the influence…

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42 is a Dramatic Biopic about Jackie Robinson the first African-American that broke out of the coloured leagues in the late 1940's and got…

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