This ain't no Rocky, and your take-aways are mostly about Chinese family and social customs. full review

Focuses on the stories of three boxers and weaves them into a compelling narrative that rivals anything Hollywood could script. full review

The documentary is fluid, detailed and well photographed by Sun Shaoguang. full review

Perhaps by focusing on something that is so much an individual sport, Chang creates a deep sense of tension between singular people and the bigger concerns of history, the team or country. full review

China Heavyweight is an uneasy mixture of familiar sports doc tropes and sociological portraiture. full review

An intimate and affecting account of two aspiring boxers from the sticks training under the same hard-working coach. full review

In China Heavyweight, we have a new variant on an old theme, but the idealism and heartbreak on view are timeless and universal. full review

Call it "Rocky,'' Asian style. full review

Mr. Sun straddles ancient and modern, tranquillity and turmoil, with equal sureness. full review

Chang falls into a repetitive training-advice-meal scene structure that's less than revelatory, and the bouts are so blurrily filmed and so leavened with reaction shots that you can't really see what's going down. full review

It stands as a fascinating look at a changing China and the courage it takes for those living there to punch above their weight. full review

Chang nurses a compelling drama from a multilayered cultural reality, at once intimate and unfathomably large in implications. full review