King Richard

Will Smith will probably win an Oscar for this very, very, very inspirational sports movie about winners who win lots of things. No matter how elaborate the tennis training montages are, it’s not suspenseful. We know what happens. The Williams sisters win lots of stuff. The tricky part here is depicting them as underdogs. The filmmakers only partially succeed at this, because, I mean, we know what happens, right? Except for the parts we don’t know, like Richard Williams getting his gun from work and heading out to seek revenge… Is this true? Did he seek out violence? Or is this a Hollywood embellishment? As a piece of inspiration, especially for kids thinking about taking up tennis, it hits all the right inspirational notes. It’s the Karate Kid of tennis movies. Wax on, wax off, etc. But they're not really underdogs.