Sydney Sweeney in David Michôd’s Boxing Bio-Drama

Starting with his breakthrough feature, the simmering Australian crime family saga Animal Kingdom, David Michôd has leaned frequently into dark material. There’s grit but also lugubriousness in Christy, an inspirational sports movie that morphs in somewhat ungainly style into an unflinching depiction of domestic violence. It’s only when that ugliness creeps in that the director […]