movie review

Christy

Running time: 135 minutes. In theaters Nov. 7.

TORONTO — A boxing movie has finally yanked Sydney Sweeney out of her restrictive Hollywood box.

She takes a big swing in “Christy,” the biopic of the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” fighter Christy Martin that had its world premiere Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Instantly, the beaming star of “The White Lotus” and “Anyone But You” disappears.

Well, almost.

“They said it felt like I had demons,” Sweeney’s Martin says at the start in a deep brogue reminiscent of Amanda Seyfried’s Elizabeth Holmes on “The Dropout.”

“Maybe it’s true. Maybe I do.”

Sweeney very well might.

The darkness she tapped into on HBO’s “Euphoria” scarily resurfaces, but in a more mature, extremely challenging role that spans a

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