Magazine Dreams

I'm watching it thinking "any one of these [storylines] is a movie, but all of these things together is a mess."

[Jonathan Majors] is great in it, but it is very tough to watch.

There is no character here, but a walking time bomb that only acts when compelled to by outside influences.

Magazine Dreams is a something’s-wrong-with-men movie that doesn’t actually want to delve deeply into the pain its protagonist is experiencing, because it finds the external manifestations of his alienation more compelling.

While the story itself bottoms out long before the film’s finale arrives, there is no question that Majors delivers a magnificently unsettling performance.

Jonathan Majors plays a volatile bodybuilder named Killian Maddox, presumably because the writer and director Elijah Bynum thought calling the character Murderguy Sulkface was too on the nose.

A deeply troubled and troublesome movie in the vein of Taxi Driver and Joker, this bodybuilding drama has—off-screen controversy notwithstanding—an undeniably brutal, committed central performance.

Jonathan Majors' performance is amazing. He manages to pull off a character who is ill and knows it.

The "fallen" star is terrific in this otherwise small-scale drama which saw its value as a likely Oscar nominee undercut by skewed "real life imitates art" circumstances.

Jonathan Majors delivers a truly brilliant performance, making you care about a character you simultaneously fear. MAGAZINE DREAMS is intense, dark, and artfully executed, showcasing a talented writer-director in Elijah Bynum.