Linha de Passe (Walter Salles) 36 [Inadequate melodrama, with a mild neo-realist bent. Contrived plotting and cross-cutting that lowers the energy level conspire to sink this one before it's far out of the gate. I fully admit that I'm not the target audience for a movie as blatantly populist as this one, but at the same time, I fail to see who really could find this stuff to be emotionally gripping.]
Tyson (James Toback) 55 [Toback's approach here initially seems like a recipe for disaster... he has Tyson himself tell his tale, only occasionally stopping for brief moments of archival footage. Through some miracle of editing, the gambit works, though, and the boxer emerges as a genuine, if genuinely sad & genuinely delusional, storyteller. Never for a moment is any perspective other than Tyson's offered, but the sheer amount of his perspective that comes through makes the movie mildly gripping.]
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Are you intentionally going to all the screenings Clint would skip?
Take a break from serving food and see a movie.
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