B ack in 2023, rising star Jonathan Majors was swinging for the fences and beyond in this colossal, Paul Schrader-esque psychodrama about a would-be bodybuilder, for which role Majors got himself stacked to beast proportions. Many expected it to play a huge part in the awards conversation, with key scenes surely destined to be shown in sizzle reel clips at endless prize ceremonies and invoked in endless op-ed pieces about fragile masculinity. But no. Now it is almost a modern film maudit , all but forgotten, a cursed film only now coming out quietly, and maybe its star is maudit as well.

Majors plays Killian Maddox, an iron-pumping wannabe caring for his disabled grandfather and cultivating a fan obsession with the stars of the bodybuilding circuit. He is particularly keen on a pre

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