‘King Richard’
While it’s now impossible to separate Will Smith’s Oscar-winning performance in King Richard from the controversy of him slapping Chris Rock on live TV in 2022, this biopic about Richard Williams is worth a watch. And now that King Richard is streaming on Netflix, you don’t even need an Apple TV+ subscription to see it. Richard Williams is a somewhat unusual subject for a biopic—he’s not a world-class athlete, he’s a world-class athlete’s dad. But despite my initial skepticism, I was won over by the gripping tale of how Williams, through persistence and what feels like a little bit of magic, managed to pull his family out of poverty by betting it all on his two daughters—Venus and Serena.