Sovereign

Name: Sovereign
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: July 11, 2025
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 67

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Briarcliff Entertainment | Release Date: July 11, 2025 | R

Summary: A father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane (Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay) — follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. As the pair travel across the country delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believeA father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane (Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay) — follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. As the pair travel across the country delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe have failed them, their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief Jim Bouchart (Dennis Quaid), setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle, and the limits of freedom. Inspired by true events.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Jul 14, 2025

The movie is a real-world thriller that’s also a riveting character study that’s also a portrait of the place where the reactionary politics of today curdles into obsession. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Jul 14, 2025

Sovereign is some of Offerman’s most complex and disturbing work. It’s a fine film, too. Read full review

Collider Shawn Van Horn

Jul 14, 2025

Empathetic human performances turn Sovereign into more than a typical crime thriller. Read full review

Rocco T. Thompson

Jun 16, 2025

Christian Swegal’s feature-length directorial debut is like staring into a national wound. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 1, 2025

Offerman’s Jerry Kane is a villain for the ages, a man with a point of view that more people share than we’d like to believe. He makes Sovereign must-see cinema for understanding not just a “type,” but a movement and a moment, and just where they’re taking us if we let them. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Sep 10, 2025

This is muscular stuff, with a firm grip on your attention. Read full review

Chase Hutchinson

Jul 10, 2025

Despite a strong performance from Nick Offerman, Sovereign is a film that’s inescapably slight and with little to say with its painfully relevant story of modern extremism. Read full review

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