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The Greatest review – Amazon’s sturdy Muhammad Ali series is a tale told too many times
Source: The Guardian · Published
There are small pleasures to be had in this straightforward retelling of the boxing champ’s life but there’s not much most viewers haven’t seen before The Greatest is a new limited series that repackages the life of Muhammad Ali for generations born too late to remember when the sporting icon was the world’s most famous man, or too lazy to seek out one of the many books written about his boxing…
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