Weekend Movie Forecast: The Soloist Vs. Tyson

Director Dito Montiel, (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), is back with Fighting, which stars Terrence Howard as a scam artist who partners up with a street fighter (Channing Tatum) to cash in on the bare-knuckle boxing circuit. The Village Voice's Scott Foundas writes, "Fighting feels like it's been kicking around somewhere for a while, too—in the office of a studio development executive eager to find more Fast and the Furious–style catnip for the urban adrenaline-junkie crowd... Never mind that you've never seen anyone as chiseled and freshly scrubbed as Tatum hocking black-market goods on the streets of Manhattan: Where "Saints" carried such a vivid sense of place that you felt as if Montiel knew every one of those humid Astoria alleyways firsthand, "Fighting" seems to unfold in a New York learned primarily from other movies—specifically those of the pre-Giuliani grindhouse era—no matter that the setting is present-day."