64.) Pawn Sacrifice [9/29/2015]

Chess as a metaphor in films has been done before, and I generally find them tedious; here, though, the complexity of chess is far more nuanced, and thus its use as a metaphor for the enigmatic (and problematic) is more nuanced than the typical motif of chess-as-war conceit; Toby MacGuire does crazy pretty well as he works to distance himself further from Spider-Man, and Liev Schreiber is a nice counter-balance to that insanity (as I am sure Spassky was to Fischer).