Variety
Emanuelle manages to make us care about this bullying girl without pleading for sympathy.
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First Match
A teenage girl signs up for an all-boys wrestling team in this high school boxing drama from Olivia Newman, based on her 2010 short film.
"Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighbourhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father." (South by Southwest Film Festival)
Less2018102 minsUSA
Drama
- Director:
- Olivia Newman (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Olivia Newman
- Cast:
- Elvire EmanuelleMuggaYahya Abdul-Mateen IIColman DomingoJharrel JeromeKim RamirezJared KempEisa Davis
First Match | Awards
Audience Award (Narrative Feature) & LUNA® Gamechanger Award, SXSW 2018
First Match | Reviews
85%20 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Hollywood Reporter
Built around an impressive performance by relative newcomer Elvire Emanuelle, the drama recalls Karyn Kusama's Girlfight, though in that case the parental dynamics ran the opposite direction.
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