DVD Review: Downhill Racer (Criterion Collection)

How telling is it that the most personal story about an athlete to come out in the past two decades was about an aging professional wrestler? Where every other sports film seems to either involve a rag tag group of underdogs fighting their way towards a championship, or telling a period piece in order to deal with racial inequality, The Wrestler managed to make us care about Randy “The Ram” Robbinson in ways we haven’t seen since Fast Eddie in The Hustler and Jake La Motta in Raging Bull.