2023 · mystery · thriller · drama
Manodrome
Directed by John Trengove1h 36m2023
Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.
Our read: Manodrome (2023) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive mystery · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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