Movie review: 'Stronger' is a higher grade of inspirational biopic
"Stronger" is a movie you need to see, no matter how much you think you don't need to see it.
A less effective version of the same fact-based story, even with the same actors doing the same excellent work - it's Jake Gyllenhaal's finest, truest two hours on film - might creak and groan with "inspirational weepie" biopic machinery, over-engineered Big Moments and an arm-twisting, melodramatic approach to its subject. We've all had that feeling of being ushered in to movie church, a place of dutiful biopic worship.
