2022 · documentary · sports
The Redeem Team
Directed by Jon Weinbach1h 38m2022
Using unprecedented Olympic footage and behind-the-scenes material, The Redeem Team tells the story of the US Olympic Men's Basketball Team’s quest for gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing following the previous team’s shocking performance four years earlier in Athens.
Our read: The Redeem Team (2022) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded documentary · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle documentary / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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