Magazine Dreams

Name: Magazine Dreams
Genre: Drama
Released: March 21, 2025
Duration: 124 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Bradley Stryker, Craig Cackowski, Haley Bennett, Harriet Sansom Harris, Harrison Page

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Briarcliff Entertainment | Release Date: March 21, 2025 | Not Rated

Starring: Bradley Stryker, Craig Cackowski, Haley Bennett, Harriet Sansom Harris, Harrison Page, Jonathan Majors, Justin Cuomo, Mellanie Hubert, Michael O'Hearn, Sonny Valicenti, Sophia Bui, Taylour Paige

Summary: Killian Maddox is consumed by his dream of becoming a world famous bodybuilder and one day gracing the cover of fitness magazines. He lives a lonely, regimented life, and his relentless drive for perfection only pushes him deeper towards self destruction, but beneath his tenacious pursuit of superstardom lies a desperate, aching need forKillian Maddox is consumed by his dream of becoming a world famous bodybuilder and one day gracing the cover of fitness magazines. He lives a lonely, regimented life, and his relentless drive for perfection only pushes him deeper towards self destruction, but beneath his tenacious pursuit of superstardom lies a desperate, aching need for human connection. … Expand

Director: Elijah Bynum

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 124 min

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Leah Greenblatt

Jan 21, 2023

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. Read full review

Clint Worthington

Jan 22, 2023

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. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jan 21, 2023

A brutal study of physical extremity and psychological meltdown built around an entirely astonishing lead performance from Jonathan Majors. Read full review

Richard Lawson

Jan 21, 2023

Who knows what, if any, instructive value a film like Magazine Dreams has in this day and age. Maybe it needn’t have any of that—a gruesome movie can just be a gruesome movie. But I suspect Bynum is trying for more than just a gnarly couple of hours. I’ll have to mull over his film, and maybe force myself to watch it again, to get a grasp on what I think Magazine Dreams is really doing and how well it succeeds in that endeavor. Read full review

Lindsey Bahr

Mar 20, 2025

While “Magazine Dreams” is an interesting character study, one many actors would love to play for all its dramatic opportunities, it also seems crafted entirely to provoke and shock — especially in the almost unbearably bleak final hour. Read full review

Screen Rant Mae Abdulbaki

Feb 3, 2023

Powered by an incredible, devoted performance from Jonathan Majors, Magazine Dreams stumbles in its last act and repeats itself too often, but it is gripping and intense all the same. Read full review

Andy Crump

Mar 26, 2025

Bynum scaffolds the film with a narrative about failure, not one about the challenges of navigating life on the spectrum. Killian’s cognitive differences are there to be exacerbated by the many problems the script piles on his shoulders, as if Bynum has a torture fetish and means to exercises it on his lead. Read full review

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