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Very good movie motivational and really suitable to watch with your kids or friends

Rise is a powerful ode to tenacity and family. Heart, optimism, and persistence are all expertly blended to depict the Antetokounmpo brothers' journey in the film. It's a stirring tale with exceptional acting and a poignant reminder that dreams can come true in spite of all obstacles.

So often, Disney films smooth over some of the uglier bits that plague human society. However, in showcasing Charles and Vera's journey from Lagos to Istanbul and eventually Athens, award-winning Nigerian film director Akin Omotoso refuses to shy away from the racism, xenophobia, humiliation, and everything else the two

(Mauro Lanari) A film that, migrants aside, could be liked as much by Meloni, Orban, Trump, as by their self-styled opponents of the progressive political area, says a lot about one of the greatest post-conciliar enigmas, the obstinacy with which for about half a century Ratzinger lashed out against a phantomatic new danger for the Church after atheism: relativism, a plurality of theoretical and practical paradigms antagonistic to magisterial doctrine. The history of our culture has recorded an attitude of diametrically opposite sign, the homologation towards a single globalized thought, the Thatcherian "TINA", "There Is No Alternative". Disney became one of its standard-bearers and at this point, in the current chaos, I no longer even know how much this this diverges from Christian disvalues.

Tells a great and recent story in an entertaining way showing the family and how they rose to fame. No major problems with the movie.