‘Pawn Sacrifice’: Toronto Review — hollywoodreporter.com

The turbulent life of Bobby Fischer – arguably the greatest, and definitely the most famous, chess player of all time – has already been the subject of an insightful HBO documentary, while serving as a backdrop for Steven Zaillan’s laudable 1993 drama. But it’s never been recreated on screen, which is what writer Steven Knight and director Edward Zwick have attempted to do in Pawn Sacrifice, a classically helmed biopic that brings nothing new to the genre, but benefits from handsome craftmanship and solid performances by Tobey Maguire as the Brooklyn boy wonder, and Liev Schreiber as his longtime Russian nemesis, Boris Spassky.

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