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Pawn Sacrifice
Directed by
Edward Zwick
PG-13
2015
1h 55m
Drama
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Biography
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7.0
73%
66%
6.8
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During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
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Cast of Pawn Sacrifice
Tobey Maguire
Bobby Fischer / Producer
Peter Sarsgaard
Father Bill Lombardy
Liev Schreiber
Boris Spassky
Michael Stuhlbarg
Paul Marshall
Lily Rabe
Joan Fischer
Sophie Nélisse
Young Joan
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Teen Bobby Fischer
Conrad Pla
Carmine Nigro
Aiden Lovekamp
Young Bobby Fischer
Evelyne Brochu
Donna
Robin Weigert
Regina Fischer
Andreas Apergis
Uncle Paul
Katie Bird Nolan
Maria
Ilia Volok
KGB Agent
Peter Janov
KGB Agent
Spiro Malandrakis
Reporter
Arthur Holden
Party Guest #3
Raphael Grosz-Harvey
Donald Byrne
John Maclaren
Theodore Tremblay
Vitali Makarov
Yovanovic
Pawn Sacrifice Ratings & Reviews
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
'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.
The Atlantic
David Sims
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.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Despite his best emoting, Maguire ultimately comes across as Peter Parker with a mole and a bad haircut.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Genius is fascinating, particularly when it is complicated, as it always seems to be.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
It's Hollywood hokum hugged around a sour little arthouse movie trying to chew its way out.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
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.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The suspense of Pawn Sacrifice is getting Fischer sane enough so that he can sit down across from his opponent and focus. We end up as impatient as those poor souls sitting in Reykjavk, looking at our watches.
Uproxx
Keith Phipps
There's much to recommend it... thanks to some sharp lines from screenwriter Steven Knight and first-rate performances.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
The challenge of "Pawn Sacrifice" was to capture the colorful Cold War '70s, the inner strategies of one man's paranoid mind and make chess cinematic. Check, and mate.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Edward Zwick's "Pawn Sacrifice" is an enthralling piece of mainstream entertainment that captures the essence of Fischer's mad genius, perfectly re-creates the tenor of the times AND works as a legit sports movie about the great game of chess.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
A sad example of the inherent difficulties of dramatizing a cerebral face-off like the 1972 battle royale between chess masters Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
There are other good performances, including a small one by Peter Sarsgaard as Fischer's chess trainer, but overall this is a film in which, as the end credit documentary footage attests, the real story overwhelms its dramatization.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Zwick, who made the exceptional nuclear thriller, "Special Bulletin," once more proves his gift for generating suspense in his handling of the chess games the whole world watched in the early 1970s.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
There's pleasure in the film's look and the dialogue, but director Edward Zwick overworks his presentation - too much exposition, too many closeups, too many bits of period footage, too many visual gimmicks - and neglects his characters and situations.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
In one of his strongest and most impressive performances, Maguire goes all in on Fischer's quirks and insecurities. Although Fischer is unquestionably a genius, he's not an easy person to like, and Maguire brilliantly gets that point across.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Screenwriter Steven Knight sticks with the popular notion that genius and lunacy grow on the same vine, which doesn't tell us much about Fischer in particular but certainly conforms to the sad trajectory of his life.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Biopics are a dime a dozen, but Tobey Maguire gives such a transfixing, transformative performance as chess master Bobby Fischer that you're hooked.
TheWrap
Tim Appelo
Is anybody better at playing a dotty, preoccupied genius than Tobey Maguire?
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
Overall, the movie presents a worthy and historical look at the link between genius and mental illness.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
As Fischer, Tobey Maguire is outstanding at capturing the man's intensity, arrogance and single-mindedness, while ensuring that the audience stops short of dismissing him as a talented screwball.
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