A Art Tv Review

 In 2001, the American Samoa soccer team achieved horrific immortality by suffering a world-historical 31-0 defeat to Australia. Ten years of misery followed with no discernible improvement, and then the team hired a foreign coach with his own problems: the troubled and temperamental Dutch-American Thomas Rongen, whose unofficial charge was to save American Samoa’s honor with a single goal. Bland photography and shallow writing are the least of my problems with “Next Goal Wins,” a movie-like blemish on the kind of entertainment known as sports underdog comedy. Director: Taika Waititi Writers: Taika Waititi, Iain Morris Stars: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana Inspired by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison’s 2014 documentary of the same name, New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi has concocted something so lazy, offensive and comically sterile that the only deserved response is bemusement. Whatever Waititi’s past sins (I’m thinking of you, the embarrassing “Jojo Rabbit” (2019)), h...