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Releasing on Dec 8, 2023
- 2023
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
- 2023
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
Summary An amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection as his relentless drive for recognition pushes him to the brink.
Directed By: Elijah Bynum
Written By: Elijah Bynum
- 2023
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
- 2023
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 4 m
Magazine Dreams
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Available after Dec 8, 2023
Summary An amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection as his relentless drive for recognition pushes him to the brink.
Directed By: Elijah Bynum
Written By: Elijah Bynum
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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77% Positive
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23% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
72
77% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
23% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Even as the pacing falters, Majors is impossible to look away from: a man who desperately needs the world to see him — and if they refuse, to feel his pain.
For all its unrelenting grimness, it’s impossible to look away from Majors’ incredible, titanic performance — every downcast glance, every nervous grin through blood-soaked teeth, every rabid bark of his frustrated outbursts is completely and totally gripping.
A brutal study of physical extremity and psychological meltdown built around an entirely astonishing lead performance from Jonathan Majors.
What Majors does here, how raw and vulnerable and brave he is not just with his craft, but his very body, is something to behold. This is true artistry, absolute commitment.
By sheer willpower alone Majors makes Magazine Dreams something to behold. This movie exists as a vessel in which to watch Jonathan Majors act his ass off.
Killian’s spiral is intense and unpleasant but we’re not left at the end with much other than respect for technique. The film, like Killian, is all muscle.
It fails as a character study because the murky inner workings of the character are all manifest, outwardly, in turns and attitudes that you can see from a mile away and are no wiser for being able to predict.
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