Screening Room: ‘T-Rex’

As if growing up poor in Flint, Michigan wasn’t difficult enough, Claressa “T-Rex” Shields decided to set herself a lofty goal: Becoming the first woman to win a gold medal in boxing at the Olympics.

Shields’s awesomely grippingstory is the subject ofT-Rex, which is playing now in limited release and should show up on PBS in the next year. My review is atFilm Journal International:

Outgoing but tough and pragmatic, Shields is blunt about how she got started at the gym she’s been boxing at si...