The Fits

Holmer fills every scene with some well-chosen detail that takes the viewer inside Toni’s head. The film contrasts the sweat, blood, and spew of the boxers with the sparkling glitter of the dancers and shows how Toni struggles...

...writer-director Anna Rose Holmer’s debut feature carves out its own unique place in this specialised sub-genre of oestrogen-soaked uncanny dramas, for a start by unfolding without fanfare in an entirely African American milieu.

The attention-getting visual and aural style of the film is one of its strengths. Cinematographer Paul Yee films this strange story in a manner appropriate to the form of the narrative.

...impressive is the economy of dramaturgical means by which the interiority of the characters is conveyed.

...The Fits manages to reinvent the sports story as something both brainy and physically pure.