Battle of the Sexes

This retelling of the epic Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs matchup spins a love story alongside its mostly observant social comedy.

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Battle of the Sexes serves up a winning portrait of Billie Jean King.

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“Battle Of The Sexes” is a window into an era where men felt no shame in telling a woman she wasn’t worthy of equal rights to her face.

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Although it may be lacking originality, Battle of the Sexes is finely-tuned storytelling that has been consummated by real pros.

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Emma Stone and Steve Carell face off in the epic boys-vs.-girls tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

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A warm, earnestly entertaining film.

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The Battle Of The Sexes, which pitted the 29-year-old top-ranked women’s tennis player Billie Jean King against the 55-year-old retired men’s pro Bobby Riggs, was a circus. Riggs, in the part of the avowed male chauvinist and opponent of women’s lib, entered the Houston Astrodome—about as un­-tennis a setting as possible—in a rickshaw pulled by buxom models to the theme music from the old Technicolor swashbuckler Captain From Castile.

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Emma Stone and Steve Carell's recreation of the media circus that was the '73 King-Riggs tennis match couldn't be more relevant.

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This is what tennis star Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) discovers at the start of “Battle of the Sexes,” a surprisingly genial biopic about a 1973 milestone event for women’s equality.

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A glib, enjoyable fictionalization of the 1973 exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.

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Steve Carell and Emma Stone star as Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King in the story of the infamous man vs. woman tennis match of 1973.

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The performances of Holly Hunter and Ron Silver had something Stone’s and Carell’s lack: true drive and animal energy, a sense of athletic competitors who mean business even when they’re kidding, or saying they are.

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Going into “Battle of the Sexes,” one might expect an equally-balanced look at the lives of self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs and tennis superstar Billie Jean King.

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The Oscar winner makes for a convincing Billie Jean King opposite Steve Carell’s larger than life Bobby Riggs in a mostly entertaining film about gender inequality on the court.

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Stone and Carell are aces, but 'Battle of the Sexes' too often faults.

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The film sacrifices some of its innate appeal by making ham out of the supposed relics of a less enlightened era.

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Darren Aronofsky’s thriller, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, and a chronicle of tennis and sexism, with Steve Carell and Emma Stone.

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