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‘Next Goal Wins’ Review: Offside
  + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Jeannette Catsoulis | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Bland photography and perfunctory writing are the very least of my issues with “Next Goal Wins,” a movie-shaped stain on the class of entertainment known as the sports-underdog comedy. Whatever Waititi’s past sins — I’m looking at you, the cringe-inducing “Jojo Rabbit” (2019) — his work has usually been polished and, yes, funny; this degree of carelessness is something new. A horrifyingly miscast Michael Fassbender stars as Thomas Rongen, a pugnacious Dutch-born soccer coach whose sideline rages have earned him professional banishment to American Samoa. Ten years earlier, the island’s soccer team had suffered a 31-0 defeat in its 2001 World Cup qualifying match against Australia, and since then has failed to score a single goal. With just three weeks until the team’s next important game, can Rongen whip its cosmically inept members into shape?
Persons: Bland, , Mike Brett, Steve Jamison’s, Taika Waititi, “ Jojo Rabbit ”, , Michael Fassbender, Thomas Rongen Organizations: New, American Samoa, Australia Locations: New Zealand, Dutch, American
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