Kid Snow review – boxing period drama set in outback Australia pulls its punches

11/09/2024 16:00

Billy Howle and Phoebe Tonkin give compelling performances but, as a sports movie and a period drama, Paul Goldman's film is going through the motions

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Tent boxing is an interesting subject for a movie: a now-defunct Australian recreation positioned on the Venn diagram overlay between sports event and circus act, involving troupes of fighters performing low-rent spectacles for outback audiences.

It's at the centre of director Paul Goldman's 70s-set drama Kid Snow, whose scruffy titular character – played by Billy Howle – is a bottomed-out Irish boxer who has become part of this world, working for a show run by his brother Rory (Tom Bateman).