For a film about the most physically powerful and intimidating women on Earth, Pearl shows just how vulnerable and fragile these competitors are-and the opportunistic monsters who groom them for competition. Not a date-night flick and certainly not the kind of disturbing fare to share with children.

The two leads are perfect in the roles- Julia Fory is a natural on camera as Pearl, and Peter Mullan brings just enough sleeze as her motivational trainer/coach/rx. Those merits aside, I can't rate any higher-the entire film made me nauseated.

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