Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
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Garbus handles this decline with tact. The sorry spectacle of the ranting codger never effaces the image of the boy concentrating his entire being over a chessboard. You have to love that kid and pity him.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
6 Sep 2011
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Supplies a cracked, conflicted genius trapped in his ceaseless endgame.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
7 Sep 2011
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Tactfully but strongly posits a connection between the genius he brought to an infinitely complex game and the madness that defined his relationship to just about everything else.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
8 Sep 2011
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Liz Garbus's documentary about the great American chess champion Bobby Fischer does its level best to avoid the easy cliche equating madness and genius, except that, in the case of Fischer, the cliche apparently holds up.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 Sep 2011
fresh:
A once-in-a-lifetime character makes for a fascinating documentary subject in producer-director Liz Garbus' "Bobby Fischer Against the World."