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The release of Amazon MGM Studios’ highly-anticipated sports drama The Fire Inside is right around the corner. And according to co-stars Brian Tyree Henry and Ryan Destiny, it’ll subvert your expectations of what a boxing movie can be while still maintaining the sports genres’ unique charm.

I don’t think there’s anything quite as unifying as a good sports movie. Take the Rocky saga, for one, or ’90s feel-good flicks like A League of Their Own. To this day, the genre occupies a strange place in cinema history, with these films (mostly) committing to either an unserious, coming-of-age aesthetic or, similar to last year’s The Iron Claw, maxing out their R-ratings with a grounded family drama that will 100% rip your heart out. For all that people expect sports films to be formulaic by now, I’m constantly surprised by how much nuance these movies can have—and The Fire Inside is no exception.