Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Christy’ Sets Extremely Unflattering Second-Weekend Record
Sydney Sweeney’s new boxing movie, Christy, has had a rough ride at the box office. After opening in over 2,000 theaters, the movie already had one of the worst opening weekends ever, and its second weekend was even worse.
Reports show that Christy made about $1.2 million in its first weekend. But in its second weekend, it earned only $108,000. That’s a 92% drop in ticket sales, which is the biggest second-weekend decline ever for a wide release, according to World of Reel.
Christy’s opening weekend was also historically low. Box Office Mojo called it one of the 12 worst openings for a movie released on more than 2,000 screens.
Critics have had mixed opinions about the film. On Rotten Tomatoes, 65% of 156 critics gave it positive reviews.
The website said, “While Christy falters in tonal cohesion and emotional impact, it remains a compelling showcase for Sydney Sweeney’s transformative performance, grounding a mythic genre in raw, personal storytelling.” Metacritic gave the film a score of 60 out of 100, meaning reviews were “mixed or average.” CinemaScore reported that audiences gave it a B+ grade.
After the movie premiered at festivals, Glenn Garner from Deadline Hollywood wrote that “Some critics have praised Sweeney for disappearing into the role of the professional boxer, others say that’s all the movie has going for it.”
Sonia Rao of The Washington Post gave the movie 2 out of 4 stars. She said Christy is a “run-of-the-mill biopic that suffers from its inability to convey what truly sets Christy’s narrative apart from the rest.”
First trailer for David Michôd’s ‘CHRISTY’ starring Sydney Sweeney.
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Marshall Shaffer of Slant Magazine called the film predictable, writing that it “lulls us into complacency by deviating little from the standard inspirational sports-movie playbook. But nestled in the early scenes of the eponymous phenom’s rise are the seeds of struggle that will bloom in the film’s more effective back as her fighting career begins to plateau.”
Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times liked Sweeney’s performance but criticized the movie itself. He said it “screams for a treatment grittier than the slick melodrama we’ve been given. It’s all highlights and lowlights, rarely interested in the in-between stuff that makes watching all the rounds of a bout so necessary to appreciating what it means to survive on the canvas.”
Even with Sydney Sweeney’s praised performance, Christy is struggling at the box office and facing tough reviews from critics.