‘Critical Thinking’ Trailer: John Leguizamo Tries to Inspire a High School Chess Team in a Troubled Neighborhood

Posted on Thursday, August 6th, 2020 by Ethan Anderton

Critical Thinking Trailer

Critical Thinking should have made a triumphant debut at the South by Southwest film festival earlier this year, but the coronavirus pandemic ruined all that. The movie tells the true story of a group of Latinx and Black teens living in the toughest under-served ghetto in Miami who strive towards becoming national chess champions. But as the first Critical Thinking trailer shows, this movie directed by and starring John Leguizamo is much more than an average underdog sports drama. Read More »

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‘Critical Thinking’ Review: John Leguizamo Turns Inner-City Teens into Chess Champs in This Powerful, Inspiring Drama

Posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2020 by Ethan Anderton

Critical Thinking Review

There are plenty of movies where inner-city kids with troubled lives get inspired by their teachers. But you’ve never seen one like Critical Thinking, which takes that formula and puts a different kind of intellectual twist on it by focusing on a group of Black and Latinx kids in 1998 who were determined to become national chess champions. In the face of underwhelming support by school administrators, troubled family dynamics, and a world that never gives them the opportunities they deserve, these kids were driven to be better than the criminals or underachievers everyone expected them to be. And it’s all thanks to a teacher who never gave up on them. Read More »

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