Movie

The Cut

2025 · 99 min

A claustrophobic, slow-burning descent into obsession and self-destruction, with a relentless focus on the body as a battleground.

Tagline: Your body is a tool.
Overview: A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
How it feels: Dark, tense, bleak and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Obsession, survival, ambition, isolation
Content: Strong language. Mild violence. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
survival
ambition
isolation
guilt
Places: big city
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language strong
Violence mild
Sex none