The brand new sports activities biopic starring Sydney Sweeney is doing properly on Rotten Tomatoes. Sweeney is a 27-year-old actor who had her breakthrough on the small display, rising to prominence by starring in HBO collection together with the teenager drama Euphoria and the homicide thriller anthology The White Lotus.
Nonetheless, there have additionally been quite a lot of notable Sydney Sweeney motion pictures. The star has taken lead roles in titles from all kinds of genres, together with the smash hit romantic comedy Anybody However You, the controversial non secular horror film Immaculate, Quentin Tarantino’s historic dramedy As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood and her new sports activities biopic.
Christy Has Received Over Critics
Sydney Sweeney as Christy Martin baring her enamel in Christy
Sydney Sweeney’s upcoming venture Christy has arrived on Rotten Tomatoes. She stars within the sports activities biopic film because the title character, Christy Martin, who’s knowledgeable boxer and inductee of the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame. It was directed and co-written by David Michôd (Warfare Machine).
Black Bear Photos is distributing Christy in home theaters on November 7.
The ensemble forged of Christy additionally contains Katy O’Brian (The Mandalorian), Ben Foster (Hell or Excessive Water), Merritt Wever (Severance), Jess Gabor (Faculty Spirits), Tony Cavalero (The Righteous Gems), Chad L. Coleman (The Wire), and Ethan Embry (Candy Residence Alabama, the upcoming Scream 7).
Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated 10 totally different critics’ evaluations for the film after its premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on September 5, which is sufficient for it to earn an official rating on the Tomatometer. Though this rating might fluctuate as extra evaluations are added, on the time of writing, Christy has earned a solidly Recent 70%.
Whereas three critics have given Christy outright unfavourable evaluations, the film’s different evaluations are demonstrably constructive. It has earned near-perfect scores from sure particular person critics, together with 4 out of 5 and 9 out of 10, with evaluations significantly praising Sweeney’s transformative efficiency.
What This Means For Sydney Sweeney
Sydney Sweeney trying off into the gap in Anybody However You
If Christy can preserve this stage of positivity as new evaluations are available on the time of its home debut, it would cement the ninth Recent rating ever earned by a Sydney Sweeney film. This will probably be a boon after string of poorly-rated titles within the 2020s, together with the Marvel flop Madame Net (10%) and the survival thriller Eden (57%).
Contemplating the truth that even the vast majority of the unfavourable evaluations reward Sydney Sweeney, this additionally provides advantage to the truth that important Oscar buzz is now surrounding the actor after Christy’s premiere. Though the Greatest Actress class is aggressive, with potential nominees together with Cynthia Erivo for Depraved: For Good and Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Sweeney now has stable momentum.
Christy
5/10
Launch Date
September 5, 2025
Runtime
135 minutes
Director
David Michôd
Writers
Mirrah Foulkes
Producers
Brent Stiefel, Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Sydney Sweeney, Teddy Schwarzman, John Friedberg, Michael Heimler, Justin Lothrop, Brad Zimmerman, David Levine
