In this engrossing documentary, the independent filmmaker Robert Greene insinuates himself and his sharp-eyed cinematographer, Sean Price Williams, into the lives and labors of the performers of the independent Millennium Wrestling Federation (based in Lincolnton, North Carolina), and reveals the surprising and demanding attributes and passions of their art.
Ross is something of an indie Robert Altman, with his huge cast of characters and plaited strands of dialogue, and he has a sharp and comic eye for intimacy, domesticity, and practicality: daily routines when nothing is happening have the moment of high drama, and an egg in the refrigerator, a broken waffle iron, and a handful of change virtually come to life.