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Documentary  •  2025  •  85 min  •  Adults (18+)

Untold: Shooting Guards (2025)

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Untold: Shooting Guards (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
6.7

Overview

This Netflix Untold documentary revisits the 2009 incident in which Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other in the Washington Wizards locker room over a gambling debt. The film traces both men's paths before and after that moment, including Crittenton's later prison sentence. The public label is Neutral because the film avoids partisan framing. It focuses on individual choices, personal accountability, and consequences rather than systemic critique or political argument. There are no ideological signals pulling the rating in either direction. The R rating reflects mature subject matter, including gun violence and crime. This is a sports story that became a cautionary one, told without a political agenda.

Starring Cast

Gilbert Arenas  •   Javaris Crittenton

Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: High

The film's central subject is an interpersonal NBA locker-room dispute and its personal fallout for two players, a topic without strong inherent partisan valence. Its narrative emphasizes individual failings, lack of personal support structures, and the human cost of bad choices rather than systemic critiques or ideological solutions, anchoring a neutral rating.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The documentary centers on two Black former NBA players recounting a real locker-room dispute and its aftermath, presenting visible racial diversity in its subjects without any recasting of roles or narrative emphasis on critiquing traditional identities.

Secondary

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High

The documentary focuses on the 2009 NBA locker room incident and the players' backgrounds, with only peripheral mentions of absent parents in childhood and the victim's family; family structures, roles, and values are not central to the narrative or meaningfully depicted.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The documentary examines the 2009 NBA locker room standoff between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton triggered by a gambling dispute, their backgrounds, and its aftermath including prison time, without any LGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

The documentary focuses exclusively on the 2009 NBA locker room incident between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton, their gambling dispute, and subsequent personal and career consequences, with no transgender characters or themes depicted.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Documentary on real 2009 NBA locker-room incident between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton, both documented male athletes appearing or discussed as men with no fictional recasts or gender changes.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

This is a documentary featuring real Black NBA players Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton recounting events from their own lives, with no fictional characters, adaptations, or recast historical figures.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.7

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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6.7
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6.7

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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