They Fight allows both of those fine actors to bring their performative strengths, mesh them together, and extrude them through the proven course of a sports film. True to winning formulas from sports movies and the sports settings themselves, having “veteran presences” like Holland and Pierce can make all the difference. The two aren’t the competitors doing the bobbing and weaving in between the ropes, but They Fight isn’t successful without them.
Read More"Selma," whose name echoes the history being told, is one of those films that gets history right, honors it, entertains you without sacrificing the real thing, and moves you to no end. Anchored by an amazing lead performance from David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Selma" has the ability to break and shatter the hardest of souls, thicken your pulse, and devour your tissue box. The experience is entirely worth all of that trouble. Best of all, it earn that emotion from you. Dare I say, "Selma" might be even better than last year's Best Picture winner "12 Years a Slave." That's the level of impact we're talking about.
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