While portraying tormented chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, Tobey Maguire delivers a solid performance in Edward Zwick’s effective, if conventional biopic, “Pawn Sacrifice.” Choosing to focus mostly on Fischer’s 1972 showdown against Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky (a terrific Liev Schreiber), Zwick and screenwriter Steven Knight paint Fischer’s early life in broad strokes. We get a CliffsNotes […]
