Zac Efron, Harris Dickinson, and Jeremy Allen White star in the story of a tragic wrestling family that holds its subjects at arm’s length.
Photo: Devin Yalkin
This review was originally published on December 20, 2023. We are recirculating it now timed to The Iron Claw’s digital release.
There’s a lot of muscled male flesh onscreen in The Iron Claw, none of it photographed in a way intended to provoke enjoyment or appreciation. In the film, which was written and directed by Sean Durkin, bodies are a source of stress more than anything else, tools to be honed for the wrestling ring and then shattered by what happens within its boundaries or outside it afterward. The Iron Claw stars a Neapolitan assortment of screen…
