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Dominican Rep. Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius
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Drama
For some athletes, the ultimate win comes through a stroke of luck, but for Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., Bobby Jones, the only golfer in history to win the prestigious Grand Slam all in the same year--it was truly a stroke of genius. Having overcome an early childhood illness, he would later leave an indelible print in sports history. In 1930, at the age of 28, Jones won the title of Grand Slam Champion by winning the British Amateur, the ... [+]
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"Tells this story in a straightforward, calm way that works ideally as the chronicle of a man's life but perhaps less ideally as drama." | POS |
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Entertainment Weekly | "It's pleasing to see Jones triumph (...), but 'Stroke of Genius' is proof that when a movie is nothing but inspirational, it can sink and disappear into a field of dreams." | NEU |
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"This is an old-fashioned sports hagiography of the sort that Gary Cooper used to star in while Teresa Wright sat smiling and worried on the sidelines" | POS |
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"It isn't that Bobby Jones is especially bad. It's just not especially good, either." | NEU |
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"I love golf, history and good stories, and I found this to be among the most boring, flat and cliched sports movies I've ever seen." | NEG |
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"Marred by a flat, conservative script and an overreliance on the tried and true. It feels like a movie we've seen before" | NEU |
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