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Durkin’s moving, muscular tale will astound and captivate you, and is unlikely to leave a dry eye in the house. The Iron Claw is a spectacular triumph.
A very human story everyone can relate to, Nail in the Coffin is a strong, documentary with a very big heart and a very bloody mouth.
Fighting With My Family is a lovely little British gem and while it’s not perfect, Merchant shows admirable potential as a director.
Wrestle relies entirely on familiar story beats and its subject matter, shining in individual moments but not adding up to a satisfying whole.
The second season of GLOW is equal in emotional intensity to the first – reuniting its original cast and introducing some new members.
Russian sports documentary Make them Believe brilliantly uses the lofty dreams of a college wrestler to examine how we chase our goals.
You would be right in thinking with a title like this The Boom Boom Girls Of Wrestling would be a lot of fun even if it wasn’t very good. Made by independent filmmaker Carolin Von Petzholdt, The Boom Boom Girls Of Wrestling claims to be inspired by true events (but I’m pretty sure this is just a gimmick), and tells the story of a group of out of work actresses who train to be wrestlers as part of some kind of reality show. However, on their way to their first event in Las Vegas their bus breaks down and they are stranded in a ghost town where a mysterious slasher (dressed as chicken, because, why not?
