A historic chess match becomes a proxy battle in the Cold War in the upcoming drama Pawn Sacrifice. Based on the true story of American prodigy Bobby Fischer (played by Tobey Maguire), Sacrifice ...

At one point in Pawn Sacrifice, the audience is told that there are an incredible number of possible ways a game of chess can play out. At another moment, the audience is told that there is in fact ...

Watch a film clip from "Pawn Sacrifice," starring Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard. Photo: Bleecker Street Mr. Knight immediately recalled that as a teenager in Birmingham, England, ...

In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The moves are none too surprising but the psychological back-and-forth still compels attention in “Pawn Sacrifice,” director Edward Zwick’s conventionally well-crafted dramatization of the life of ...

The hardest type of guy for an actor to play is one without charisma. That's the challenge Tobey Maguire faces in Edward Zwick's Pawn Sacrifice, which tells the story of Cold War–era chess champ and ...

Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in “Pawn Sacrifice” is not the chess grandmaster’s proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world title in ...

Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice" is not the chess grandmaster's proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the world title in ...

Andrew Karpen’s Bleecker Street has made its first move at the Toronto International Film Festival, picking up Ed Zwick’s chess drama “Pawn Sacrifice,” which stars Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer and ...