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Race

2016

Stephen Hopkins

Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, William Hurt, Jeremy Irons ...

6.2

5,650

Drama Track and field star Jesse Owens overcomes adversity to win four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

	Media	Author	Review
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A by-the-numbers sports biopic with little nuance and a penchant for saccharine-soaked dramatic moments (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Like an over-trained athlete who pulls a hamstring in the big race, the movie tries to do it all and comes up short"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'Race' reminds us that long before television elevated black sports heroes into gods, there were athletes like Jesse Owens who paved the way"
		Andrew Barker Variety	"Making a few admirable attempts to complicate what could have been a standard-issue inspirational sports narrative, "Race" is better than it has to be, but not by too much..."
		Stephen Whitty New York Daily News	"As a Hollywood biography of the great Jesse Owens, it's meant to be epic. But its characters feel flat and unreal. Apart from a few big moments, it's as cheap and false as a 1970s TV flick (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"The story fascinates, but the telling doesn’t nab the gold."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Race' is at its best when it fills in the corners of a story we only thought we knew. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"

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