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Release date: Sep 27, 2019
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"Jim Allison: Breakthrough" offers an inspiring and heartening retort. Check it out. Take the kids. Go twice. Just see the dang thing. You won't regret it, and you'll never forget it. Oct 2, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
"Jim Allison: Breakthrough" offers an inspiring and heartening retort. Check it out. Take the kids. Go twice. Just see the dang thing. You won't regret it, and you'll never forget it.
Ann Hornaday
Filmmaker Bill Haney takes an effectively straightforward approach to fashioning a respectful portrait of maverick cancer researcher James P. Allison. Sep 27, 2019 | Full Review…
Filmmaker Bill Haney takes an effectively straightforward approach to fashioning a respectful portrait of maverick cancer researcher James P. Allison.
Joe Leydon
With the colorful Allison... and narrator Woody Harrelson at his disposal, Haney could have easily done without all the glossy dramatic recreations and frequent shout-outs to Bristol-Myers Squibb... Sep 26, 2019 | Full Review…
With the colorful Allison... and narrator Woody Harrelson at his disposal, Haney could have easily done without all the glossy dramatic recreations and frequent shout-outs to Bristol-Myers Squibb...
Michael Rechtshaffen
An accessible introduction to James P. Allison, who, along with Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for discoveries in cancer immunotherapy. Sep 26, 2019 | Full Review…
An accessible introduction to James P. Allison, who, along with Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for discoveries in cancer immunotherapy.
Ben Kenigsberg
Jim Allison: Breakthrough is a most enjoyable, and remarkable, ramble. Oct 28, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Jim Allison: Breakthrough is a most enjoyable, and remarkable, ramble.
Elias Savada
The Nobel speaks for Allison's extraordinary success. The movie speaks for the extraordinary man behind it. Oct 20, 2019 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
The Nobel speaks for Allison's extraordinary success. The movie speaks for the extraordinary man behind it.
Al Alexander
What a pleasure it is to meet Jim Allison in Bill Haney's excellent documentary. Oct 10, 2019 | Full Review…
What a pleasure it is to meet Jim Allison in Bill Haney's excellent documentary.
Martha K. Baker
A worthy documentary, about a subject who's a fascinating, compelling character in his own right. Oct 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A worthy documentary, about a subject who's a fascinating, compelling character in his own right.
Stephen Silver
A fascinating look at MD Anderson immunologist and Nobel laureate's fight against cancer. Significant doc with enough Texas levity to make this a real treat. Oct 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A fascinating look at MD Anderson immunologist and Nobel laureate's fight against cancer. Significant doc with enough Texas levity to make this a real treat.
Joe Friar
In any other context, [a "quack"] is what he would be, except that he was right! Oct 3, 2019 | Full Review…
In any other context, [a "quack"] is what he would be, except that he was right!
Tim Cogshell
Getting to know Jim Allison and some of his colleagues made me feel very small and humble. This worthy film chronicles a remarkable odyssey. Sep 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Getting to know Jim Allison and some of his colleagues made me feel very small and humble. This worthy film chronicles a remarkable odyssey.
Leonard Maltin
Engaging portrait of a flinty Texas iconoclast out to cure cancer. Sep 23, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Engaging portrait of a flinty Texas iconoclast out to cure cancer.
Roger Moore
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