You can see Smith as a modern-day equivalent to Cary Grant a generation ago, writes Geoffrey Macnab. Grant appeared in so many mainstream movies that reviewers took him completely for granted
, the patriarch and self-taught tennis coach who guides Venus and Serena from tough beginnings in Compton toward glory on the courts. It’s a typical, bravura Smith performance. He has bulked up a little and gone to great lengths to copy the real-life Williams’ shuffling gait. He is charming and funny but also shows a ruthless single-mindedness, gatecrashing the country clubs of white America and defying an openly racist tennis establishment..
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