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Pawn Sacrifice
A great history and a greater challenge in the midst of a cold war between the Americans and the Soviets. That is the true legend of Bobbie Fisher, an old American chess player who found himself among two great powers. It was the biggest challenge when Bobby Fischer decided to enter the biggest challenge in that game with the greatest Soviet player Boris Spassky. It was the 1972 World Chess Championship, which he brought together with his clever Soviet counterpart, which was a major challenge to Fischer and Spassky in the face of a rivalry between the world's great powers.
7 July 1969, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
12 May 1914, Ferriday, Louisiana, USA
7 July 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
27 November 1957, New York City, New York, USA
2 May 1972, Tokyo, Japan
23 December 1982, Montréal, Québec, Canada
7 October 1978, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
17 November 1983, Montreal, Québec, Canada
August 12, 2016
A film that works because of the great performances by the two leads. [Full review in Spanish]
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
Genius is fascinating, particularly when it is complicated, as it always seems to be.
August 29, 2016
There's no better metaphor for the film's plot than this sport. [Full review in Spanish]
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.
September 25, 2015
Fine-looking but safe ...
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.
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
Archived news reports and a Dick Cavett interview fit seamlessly into the dramatic recreations, as do era-specific rock tunes.
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.
September 24, 2015
Despite his best emoting, Maguire ultimately comes across as Peter Parker with a mole and a bad haircut.