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Um filme comum, mas com uma história forte e as duas matadoras da representação, Jodie Foster e Annette Bening, em força total num filme em que acreditam. Amizade e apoio totais, uma vontade e uma convicção absolutas que movem o mundo. Em termos de história, o filme sugere parâmetros para os Óscares, mas é provável que passe despercebido às massas, tal como aconteceu com o excelente Thirteen Lives de Howard no ano passado. Estou contente por ver Jimmy Chin a entrar no campo das longas-metragens. (06/11/2023)

No one can tell me that Jimmy Chin and his wife didn't originally intend this as an episode for Edge of the Unkown. But then, when they were going through the documentary footage, they thought “hey, we already have an Oscar for documentary, how about trying fiction, it's hard to get our hands on more rewarding material?” A powerful inspirational story about the indomitable willfulness of a willful, very difficult to get along with retired woman (at one time a record breaker, then a legend of the commentariat) who refuses to accept that she belongs to the old guard. As much as one could fault the unnecessarily drawn-out runtime and, despite the topic and the unused "unsparingness", it is carried by the central duo of acting legends. And they enjoy their strong characters, and virtually every scene they do together (which is 90% of the film) can be cut for an "Oscar showreel" without slipping into overacting even for a moment. More interesting "because it happened" and "because of how it's acted" than "because of how good the movie is", but in the genre of award-winning biopics, it's unquestionably a cut above the rest. (04/11/2023)