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Venus, Serena, and their father: ‘King Richard’ biopic is an ace

“King Richard,” starring Will Smith in his best performance yet, is an enormously entertaining movie about Richard Williams, the high-powered patriarch of tennis superstars Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton). Perhaps “high-powered” doesn’t quite capture him. Obsessively controlling? Imperially stubborn? However he comes across in the movie – and he’s all of these things and more – you can’t argue with the results: He meticulously groomed his daughters practically

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