When first we encounter Phiona, played with no-frills directness by newcomer Madina Nalwanga, she’s on the verge of becoming a chess champion, and the film flashes back to show her childhood beginnings. Warm up to its miraculous facts and only the coldest heart will remain unthawed. The story is true, and the message it delivers-with care and help, the disenfranchised can become role models and inspire others-is unabashedly sentimental, but in a good way. India’s Mira Nair ( Salaam Bombay!) pulls all the Kleenex out of the box in this weepie about Phiona, a bright, penniless girl with no formal education in the dismal Uganda slums of Katwe who becomes a world chess champion. Starring: Madina Naiwanga, David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o
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