Manodrome

Name: Manodrome
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: November 10, 2023
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Adrien Brody, Brian Anthony Wilson, Caleb Eberhardt, Ethan Suplee, Evan Jonigkeit

2023

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Grindstone Entertainment Group | Release Date: November 10, 2023 | R

Starring: Adrien Brody, Brian Anthony Wilson, Caleb Eberhardt, Ethan Suplee, Evan Jonigkeit, Gheorghe Muresan, Jesse Eisenberg, Odessa Young, Philip Ettinger, Sallieu Sesay

Summary: Ralphie (Jesse Eisenberg) is young and healthy and his girlfriend is pregnant. Yet things do not feel quite right. His job as an Uber driver is neither gratifying nor financially secure. His relationship with his body may also be built on shaky foundations. When he is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult, the tensions that have beenRalphie (Jesse Eisenberg) is young and healthy and his girlfriend is pregnant. Yet things do not feel quite right. His job as an Uber driver is neither gratifying nor financially secure. His relationship with his body may also be built on shaky foundations. When he is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult, the tensions that have been growing inside him surface. Ralphie begins to lose his grip on reality. [Berlin]… Expand

Director: John Trengove

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 95 min

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Chris Barsanti

Feb 22, 2023

While John Trengrove’s skill is apparent in the slow build of tension, it also stands out in the arguably more impressive way that he holds Ralphie’s view of the world separate from that of the film’s. Read full review

Collider Marco Vito Oddo

Feb 18, 2023

While Manodrome doesn't always manage to keep steady pacing, it still serves as a unique character study for Jesse Eisenberg's angry and destructive young man. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Nov 8, 2023

It's Eisenberg who finds Ralphie in those narrative spaces, creating a whole and crushingly convincing portrait of a profoundly lost man, and the damage left in his wake. Read full review

Nikki Baughan

Feb 18, 2023

Eisenberg impresses in a role which requires him to keep a great deal beneath the surface. But the screenplay locks up some elements of his character rather too tight and, as dramatic motivations for what follows, they are unpersuasive and somewhat cliched. Read full review

Screen Rant Alex Harrison

Nov 16, 2023

Manodrome lacks depth as either social commentary or character study, in large part because of how it positions us in relation to its protagonist's perspective. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Nov 9, 2023

The callbacks to “Taxi Driver” and, on a lesser level, “Fight Club” are many in South African writer-director John Trengrove’s well-shot but heavy-handed and depressingly obvious Manodrome, a blunt indictment of toxic masculinity that strikes mere glancing blows and packs a relatively soft punch. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Nov 10, 2023

The cast gives their all, but the film ultimately has nothing to offer. Read full review

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