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Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes follows the true story of the famous 1973 tennis rivalry match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ, Bobby Riggs.
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The Guardian by Benjamin Lee

It’s a decent tennis movie, solidly told and choreographed, but it’s in the film’s depiction of a same-sex romance between King and her hairdresser, played beautifully by Andrea Riseborough, where things truly comes alive.
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RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico

It’s not a “bad” film, but Billie Jean King’s story could have been so much deeper. It’s a movie that doesn’t hit nearly as hard as she did.
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IndieWire by David Ehrlich

This is a film that admires — even awes at — Billie Jean King, but it doesn’t share her commitment to the game. If anything, it has more in common with Riggs than it should, moving with the sluggishness of a player who underestimates their opponent.
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The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Though told in broad strokes, its version of the story deserves credit for never buying into the hype and surreal pageantry of the Astrodome showdown. But its lack of interest in tennis as a sport leaves the narrative—plastered with hot-button issues and character crises—with an empty center.
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The Film Stage by Jordan Ruimy

Although it may be lacking originality, Battle of the Sexes is finely-tuned storytelling that has been consummated by real pros.
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Variety by Peter Debruge

The outcome is widely known, but the backstory proves boisterously entertaining — and incredibly well-suited to the current climate, as King was both fighting for her gender and exploring her sexuality in 1973, when the widely publicized face-off happened.

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