Sports movies are fast becoming a cliche, if they ever weren’t. The triumph against all odds stories so prevalent in many of them is hard to make fresh. And coming off two last year, the wrestling drama Unstoppable that merged family with domestic abuse, and the female boxing story, The Fire Within both had similar trajectories, with the latter standing out. And now comes a corker of a true story, also set in the world of women’s boxing, Christy starring Sydney Sweeney as Christy Martin , a celebrated female boxer who was the first ever to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but also led a very dark life of domestic abuse, drugs, and a trainer-husband who nearly killed her.

It is all in this overlong (at 135 minutes), somewhat repetitive, and finally in the third act excr

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