LAURIE SPARHAM / Sony Pictures Classics
"The Damned United," about U.K. soccer manager Brian Clough, is more character study than sports movie. Michael Sheen plays the central role.
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Black Dynamite Smart, funny send-up of blaxploitation pics from cowriter and star Michael Jai White. Even if you don't know Shaft from a mineshaft, it's worth checking out this ingeniously plotted, over-the-top spoomage, with its kickboxing lady-killer hero, pimps and pushers, and an evil plot that leads from Watts to the White House. R
The Damned United Michael Sheen is stunningly good as legendary U.K. soccer manager Brian Clough in this crackling character study. Not so much a sports movie, but rather a finely turned portrait of a man full of ambition and inspiration - and full of himself, too. Hubris and humility on the soccer pitch! R
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