"Something for nearly everyone at cinemas this weekend: A boxing biopic, an epic set in the Pacific Northwest, a new Predator flick and an anguishing postpartum story. Also quieter titles: a recreation of a 1970s interview with a celebrated New York art scene photographer, and a father-daughter drama from the filmmaker behind the 2022 standout The Worst Person in the World."
"Christy Martin, whose life story is featured in the new film Christy, grew up a coal miner's daughter in West Virginia. After playing Little League baseball and basketball with the boys, she got a basketball scholarship to college. Then she began boxing in local amateur tough-man contests. She wore pink trunks, had a mean left hook, and enjoyed trash-talking her opponents. She kept winning fights, and was the first woman signed by promoter and boxing impresario Don King."
"In the 1990s, Christy Martin was considered the most exciting and successful female boxer. She won titles, fought at Madison Square Garden and made it onto the cover of Sports Illustrated. She was later inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Martin says inside the boxing ring, she felt safe. But her private life was a different story. For two decades, she suffered her husband's emotional and physical brutality."
Cinema offerings include mainstream and quieter titles. Christy Martin's film traces her rise from a coal miner's daughter to a 1990s boxing star, detailing wins, Don King signing, Madison Square Garden fights, Hall of Fame induction, and decades of domestic abuse culminating in a 2010 stabbing and shooting. Lynne Ramsay's Die, My Love casts Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a new mother suffering severe postpartum depression isolated with an aloof partner played by Robert Pattinson. Additional releases include an epic set in the Pacific Northwest, a new Predator installment, a recreated 1970s interview with a New York art photographer, and a father-daughter drama from the director of The Worst Person in the World.
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