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Review: “Pelé” (Pitch Productions, streaming on Netflix)

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What does Pelé have in common with the Beatles? They are both mass cultural phenomena, huge in the 60s. They’re both the greatest in their field, you could argue. And the release of yet another book or movie about either may well be greeted with a shrug by all but the keenest of scholars. What can be said about either that hasn’t been said a thousand times before?

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