{"id":403402,"date":"2025-09-06T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403402\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:29:10","slug":"what-the-critics-are-saying-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403402\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Critics Are Saying \u2014 TIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSydney Sweeney<\/a>\u2018s latest performance in the David Mich\u00f4d<\/a>-helmed boxing biopic Christy<\/a> has premiered at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival<\/a> to mixed reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Emmy nominee stars as boxer Christy Martin, who never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia\u2014until she discovered a knack for knocking people out. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim (Ben Foster). But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it, as she confronts family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile some critics have praised Sweeney for disappearing into the role of the professional boxer, others say that\u2019s all the movie has going for it. <\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline\u2019s Pete Hammond said Christy is an \u201coverlong (at 135 minutes), somewhat repetitive and finally, in the third act, excruciating-to-watch movie<\/a>,\u201d although he admitted, \u201cSweeney delivers, and then some, putting her all into this sometimes extremely dark tale, and really does show she has the acting chops to pull it off, as if we didn\u2019t already know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf only the movie didn\u2019t feel like we have seen this before because Martin\u2019s personal story \u2026 is worthy of it being told to as many people as possible,\u201d adds Hammond. \u201cLet\u2019s hope Christy, despite its flaws, gets an audience for that reason alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sydney<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Christy\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlack Bear<\/p>\n

\n\tIn IndieWire<\/a>\u2018s review, Kate Erbland wrote that Sweeney \u201cdisappears into the role, not just changing her hair color, eye color, accent, and way of moving, but her general air, her overall mien, the space she takes up in a room.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe New York Post<\/a>\u2018s Johnny Oleksinski called Sweeney \u201ca knockout\u201d in her performance, adding that the film is \u201ca major step to showing there\u2019s much more to her than rom and com.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Nick Schager wrote for The Daily Beast<\/a> that Sweeney \u201cgives a believable performance that almost transcends her role\u2019s derivativeness. This manipulative hybrid of Rocky, Million Dollar Baby, and Monster, however, is so rote that even an A.I. wouldn\u2019t dare try to pass it off as original.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTheWrap<\/a>\u2018s Chase Hutchinson wrote, \u201cIt succeeds about half the time, making for a split decision where Sweeney and Christy both emerge as champions while the film itself can\u2019t quite go the distance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor The Guardian<\/a>, Benjamin Lee concluded, \u201cChristy Martin\u2019s life was filled with devastating blows but in her biopic, we barely feel the impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers are Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Teddy Schwarzman, Brent Stiefel, Justin Lothrop, Mich\u00f4d and Sweeney, and the movie premieres Nov. 7 in theaters via Black Bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney\u2018s latest performance in the David Mich\u00f4d-helmed boxing biopic Christy has premiered at the 50th Toronto International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[72011,77,3943,24808,107760,138490,121639,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-christy","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-sydney-sweeney","12":"tag-tiff","13":"tag-toronto-film-festival","14":"tag-toronto-international-film-festival","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115159011666483194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}