NBA star LeBron James is the star of More Than a Game, a documentary he appeared in when he was one of five players on a seven-year journey from Akron's inner-city courts to a national high school championship. The Village Voice's Nick Pinkerton says "the ostensible director here is Kristopher Belman...but final cut belongs to LeBron, Inc. The recent PR flub of Nike henchmen confiscating footage of James getting gently dunked on in a pickup game testifies to the powerful trust authoring his legacy...Good game footage, a few clear looks at the kids behind it, but mostly as processed as Space Jam."
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, After the Storm, Afterschool, An American Journey: Revisiting Robert Frank’s "The Americans", Chelsea on the Rocks, More Than a Game, Where is Where?, The Wiz, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.






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