{"id":214863,"date":"2025-10-21T06:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214863\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:43:13","slug":"christy-review-sydney-sweeney-is-strong-but-the-film-pulls-its-punches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214863\/","title":{"rendered":"Christy review: &#8216;Sydney Sweeney is strong but the film pulls its punches&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film flipflops in tone, and isn\u2019t helped by the near-cartoonish characters in its supporting cast. Foster\u2019s Jim utters lines like, \u2018This lady boxing business\u2026 maybe there\u2019s something to it\u2019, and later, \u2018There is no Christy Martin without me!\u2019 when he\u2019s manipulated her into a professional and personal life bound to him. Martin\u2019s mother, too, occupies quite an aggravating role as the condescending, conservative mother \u2013 \u2018Oh Christy, you need to get your act together,\u2019 is her response when Martin opens up about the domestic abuse she is experiencing. Granted, Merritt Wever makes the best of this flat character, and a scene of hers did once prompt a loud, \u2018fuck you!\u2019 from one audience member at the Royal Festival Hall\u2019s packed LFF gala screening, which got quite a laugh. More nuance in this mother-daughter relationship would\u2019ve been appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film flipflops in tone, and isn\u2019t helped by the near-cartoonish characters in its supporting cast. Foster\u2019s Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[13246,2560,263,101,9298,56,54,55,19830],"class_list":{"0":"post-214863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-ben-foster","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-review","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sydney-sweeney","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-womens-boxing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}