Race (2016)
Young Jesse Owens becomes a track and field sensation while attending the Ohio State University in the early 1930s, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
21 December 1963, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1963, Canada
1977
18 September 1975, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
19 September 1948, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
13 December 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1966, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
28 August 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
16 May 1956, Schwerin, German Democratic Republic
25 May 1968, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
20 March 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
December 12, 2016
Given all its volatile and exhilarating ingredients, it's disappointing that Race doesn't have greater impact.
February 22, 2016
A wallpaper-thin but sentimentally effective hagiography.
February 19, 2016
Race follows the pattern of so many other sports biopics in which it's white patronage that makes black triumphs possible.
November 08, 2016
ace is a history lesson, personal profile and a crowd pleaser.
April 12, 2017
Race isn't a bad film or biopic for that matter. It's beautifully shot, informative, and has some fantastic actors helming it. However, that's exactly what you'd expect.
February 23, 2016
A glossy, superficial biopic set in a historical context that begs for more, Race can at least claim to be one of the two best movies ever made about Olympic hero/Hitler-embarrasser Jesse Owens.
February 21, 2016
The bare necessities are there, the performances are competent, and there are some strong moments but Race suffers from a lack of ambition. It's too safe and that quality mutes its impact and limits its ability to be more than a history lesson.
March 21, 2017
The film is woefully disjointed, frustratingly removed from its lead character, and overly sanitized.
August 15, 2016
Race means well, and it certainly wants to tell Owens' story as completely as it can. Yet Hopkins and company never quite get there, the whole enterprise coming up a little short of the finish line as it lumbers its way down the track.
February 19, 2016
Where is Owens in all of this? By the end of Race, we don't know much more about him as an individual than we did when the movie began.
October 19, 2016
...Race pushes things aside that could do with more exploration...
February 19, 2016
Race is the most timid, lackadaisical movie that could have been made out of potentially classic material.
