"Long-awaited 'Sweetwater' biopic finally hits theaters, featuring Nat Clifton's inspiring story."

"Sweetwater" is a poorly made biopic about pioneer basketball player Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, with flat lighting and absentmindedness for anything resembling an evocative composition. The film's unnatural development and reductive narrative, along with low-effort acting, make it feel like an AI chatbot wrote it. The film portrays Sweetwater as a mythical and magical figure, racked by the torture of otherness, and his success becomes the self-congratulatory success of every moderate, neoliberal white person who populates the film. The main problem is that the film chosen to deliver the message about Black superstars who came before MJ is rotten.