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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Nov 2021

Richard is flawed, never villainous or heroic, and rarely follows his own fervent advice to be humble…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Nov 2021

Some 15 years after Will Smith gave one of his most authentic and enduring performances playing the real-life homeless salesman Chris Gardner…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Nov 2021

Once you surrender yourself to what King Richard is doing, and what it’s not doing, that’s okay…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 18 Nov 2021

I was worried King Richard would come to resemble the platitudinous The Pursuit of Happyness, which earned Smith an Oscar nomination, but is…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 18 Nov 2021

Smith aces the performance, which is the main attribute in elevating the story above the standard sports-movie conventions…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 18 Nov 2021

Anytime King Richard threatens to follow an anodyne sports-movie arc, Williams’s forceful personality rears its head again…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 17 Nov 2021

Will Smith delivers a ferocious, all-consuming performance in King Richard, a thoroughly entertaining portrait of Richard Williams — better…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 17 Nov 2021

There are, hopefully, still many stories left to be told about the phenom of the Williams sisters. But King Richard is a very good start…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Nov 2021

Even the verifiably true material in King Richard has a way of coming off like a Hollywood movie in the most “Hollywood movie” sense of…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 16 Nov 2021

King Richard, though perhaps a tad overlong, is as irresistible as the young legends at its center; you watch with pleasure, thinking of the…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Nov 2021

King Richard is half sports movie, half biopic. As such, it hits the sweet spots and sour notes of both genres…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 Nov 2021

King Richard is a movie, not a miniseries; and part of what makes Baylin’s screenplay so effective is his knowing what to leave out as well…

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By Hoai-Tran Bui (110) for Slashfilm (971) on 16 Nov 2021

King Richard isn't looking to break the sports biopic genre or break the Williams' sister's legacy; it's purely a crowd-pleasing performance…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Nov 2021

The movie keeps enough of Richard’s messy past off screen to feel like a hagiography with a few concessions, rather than a true warts-and-all…

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By Weldon B. Johnson (13) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 15 Nov 2021

King Richard is an inspiring story of a family beating long odds to succeed…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Nov 2021

Once the focus switches to Venus, whatever is going on with Richard becomes secondary…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 09 Nov 2021

Director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s drama works best when it pushes against genre conventions, focusing more on race, class and the difficulties…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Nov 2021

This may not quite be the biopic of two women whose achievements decidedly merit one, but it’s an extraordinary story about a man who endured…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Nov 2021

Rarely has a film used its foreknowledge of a happy ending as a reason to remain so uncritical and incurious of its central subject…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 04 Nov 2021

It’s lots of fun until you notice it doesn’t quite add up…

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