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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Luke Buckmaster

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

Billy Howle as Kid Snow
Billy Howle is ‘strong in the eponymous role, with a shaggy haven’t-showered-for-a-week energy that feels genuine and lived-in’. Photograph: David Dare Parker/Madman Films

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).

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