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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 01 Dec 2017

At 121 minutes, Battle of the Sexes occasionally drags, but it's the Hairy Legged Feminist-Male Chauvinist Pig showdown that we needed right now…

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By Alexandra Macaaron (124) for Women's Voices for Change (124) on 01 Dec 2017

Interestingly enough, is that had it not been for a handful of diehard chauvinists one of the most iconic moments of the women's rights movement…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 30 Nov 2017

Co-directors Valerie Faris and Jonathon Dayton, working from Simon Beaufoy's screenplay, deliver a layered, moving, funny and fascinating movie…

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By Ben Skipper (23) for International Business Times (181) on 30 Nov 2017

Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs are two characters worth building a film around, and the film does well to portray both as more complex than…

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By Rob Carnevale (227) for Indie London (156) on 29 Nov 2017

Battle of the Sexes shows how those seeds of change were sewn…

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By Deborah Ross (530) for The Spectator (1,162) on 29 Nov 2017

The film is not unsuccessful, as it's mostly entertaining enough, and if the gender politics seem oversimplified, there are reminders of some…

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By Jonathan Dean (62) for GQ Magazine [UK] (132) on 29 Nov 2017

It's a fine mesh, well-costumed and well-shot, yet, weirdly, it never ignites as intended…

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By Tom Shone (158) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 26 Nov 2017

There's fun to be had watching Stone deliver comeuppance to this clown, although the film takes its sweet time getting there, mostly because…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 26 Nov 2017

Battle Of The Sexes has become a film that reveals just how little progress has been made and it's all the better and more powerful for it…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 26 Nov 2017

The film may borrow the name from the much-hyped match, but Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris know far more…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 26 Nov 2017

This dramatisation revisits those carnivalesque events in splendidly springy fashion, achieving the quadruple grand slam feat of being emotionally…

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By Grant Rollings (123) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 24 Nov 2017

Smashing the snappy dialogue out of the court is the supremely funny Steve Carell as Riggs and the wonderfully buoyant Emma Stone as King…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 24 Nov 2017

Battle of the Sexes has the honour of being the first great film about tennis, but it's also a joyous celebration of an important moment of…

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By Matthew Norman (64) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 24 Nov 2017

Stone gives her best performance since she first exploded as a fully formed generational talent in 2010's Easy A…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 24 Nov 2017

The glib screenplay is often thumpingly obvious but this is an entertaining crowd-pleaser…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 24 Nov 2017

The movie unfolds a bit like a really good baseline rally: a blow for the men, a counter-blow for the women…

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By Jamie Dunn (104) for The Skinny (809) on 24 Nov 2017

As a palate cleanser for 2017, you could do much worse than Battle of the Sexes, a lightweight but likable sports movie…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 23 Nov 2017

Watching male chauvinism get a drubbing will never not be good cinematic sport, and Battle of the Sexes gives us ringside seats…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 23 Nov 2017

A seductively enjoyable, smart and well-acted film…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for iNews.co.uk (132) on 23 Nov 2017

Emma Stone delivers perhaps her finest performance to date, adeptly conveying King's fiery determination, but also her heart-breaking vulnerability…

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