Basketball fans who already know Cooke failed to make the cut will learn little here; viewers hoping for broader insights will find even less.
A penetrating and ultimately heartbreaking inventory of hard lessons learned on and off the court.
The Safdies have stood out over the last few years for continually challenging audience expectations even while seeming to adhere to conventional storytelling traditions, and that's certainly true here: You've never seen a sports movie like this before.
The brothers Safdie did a rather remarkable job at showing what went wrong in Cooke's trajectory.
An effective bit of human drama, competently, and sometimes movingly, telling a story that deserves to be told.
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