The Fire Inside is filled with sparks that never burst to life. In the director's chair, Morrison — who shot Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station and Dee Rees' Mudbound — retains her eye for ...

“The Fire Inside” burns most intensely when Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry share the screen. Fortunately, they do so quite a bit in the impressive directorial debut of cinematographer ...

The first half of “The Fire Inside” offers a handful of lively boxing sequences, orchestrated by Morrison with a stick-and-move approach. In general, we get exciting and dramatic sports-movie ...

Filming on "The Fire Inside" began in 2020 and lasted two days before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown went into effect. Shooting resumed two years later, after the project moved from Universal to ...

It’s the kind of inspirational arc that is, paradoxically, tough to dramatize with integrity. Fortunately, “The Fire Inside” prizes texture and detail above feel-good schmaltz.

For Rachel Morrison’s feature directorial debut “The Fire Inside,” there was a lot of pressure to “get it right” and do justice to the story of boxer Claressa Shields.But greater than ...

"The Fire Inside" is loosely based on Shields' life so all events in the film are not exactly true. For instance, the movie portrays Shields as a fighter who wanted to win gold at the 2012 Olympics.

“The Fire Inside” — 3 stars “The Fire Inside,” about boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, is not your standard inspirational sports drama, even if it feels like it for the first half ...