Review: King Richard
The story of tennis sisters Venus and Serena Williams and their hard-working, hustling father Richard (Will Smith) as he tries to coach/mould them to success. Aunjanue Ellis plays their mother, whilst Jon Bernthal and Tony Goldwyn are rock-solid as the professional tennis coaches. 2021 propaganda piece masquerading as a biopic earning Will Smith an Oscar, which he basically soiled by his awful on-stage violence and inept, shamefully justifying acceptance speech. It’s an elephant. It’s still in the room. It will forever be in the room. It needed a mention, and I bet Richard Williams himself wasn’t impressed by the shadow it cast on his story. Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green ( “Joe Bell” ) and scripted by Zach Baylin ( “Gran Turismo” ), there’s scarcely a believable moment and most bizarrely of all, the story is told from the least interesting and most culturally outdated point of view. Despite not personally being a fan of Venus and especially Serena Williams, this is their grea