Jonathan Majors’ incredible transformation to play bodybuilder Killian Maddox in Magazine Dreams is breathtaking, first seen in godlike glory in a daydream, striking the requisite professional ...

Magazine Dreams is a bodybuilding drama written and directed by Elijah Bynum. It features Jonathan Majors in the lead role as Killian Maddox, an aspiring bodybuilder loosely inspired by a real person.

When Searchlight Pictures won the bidding war for distribution rights to Magazine Dreams a month after it premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, plans were already in place for Jonathan ...

Early in 2023, you couldn’t tell folks that Magazine Dreams wasn’t going to become the talked about movie of the year. It had just had a splashy premiere at the Sundance Film Festival that ...

Elijah Bynum’s “Magazine Dreams” opens on images of a man in on a runaway as his barely-clothed body is embraced by light. It’s a warm yet lonely image, and that contradiction invests it ...

When an independent filmmaker wants to hypnotize an audience, show off his chops, and make a grand statement, a surefire way to do it — at least if he has the talent ­— is to create his own ...

Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ Unlikely to Get Searchlight Release After Star’s Conviction. The searing body building drama was the darling of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and had ...

Magazine Dreams is a character study, putting the journey on Majors’ shoulders. He delivers a remarkably striking performance as Killian, elevating the words on the page.

Magazine Dreams could just as easily have been called “Little Traumas Everywhere” or something similar because of the amount of pain its characters render in a film that centers on the ...

Jonathan Majors‘ Magazine Dreams is officially back on the market. Nearly a year after Searchlight Pictures acquired the body-building drama, the specialty arm of Walt Disney Studios has quietly ...

Magazine Dreams tracks Killian’s wavy but steady crescendo toward unforgivable violence — as we can expect that a movie such as this, so rooted in male insecurity, will set out to do.