Jockey finishes a first-place winner without even needing to run an actual race.

| Mar 1, 2022

Jockey sweats authenticity from every dust-impacted pore.

| Feb 10, 2022

It sounds cheesy, but the novice writer-director Clint Bentley, whose father was a jockey, brings a radical realism to the tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2022

What elevates it most is Collins, a familiar supporting actor with an air of Johnny Cash whose nuanced, soulful work as star makes the whole film ring true.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2022

Collins is quietly mesmerizing, his mannerisms so small that they hardly register. But the work is there, as it has always been. You know his face, and now with "Jockey," you'll know Clifton Collins' name, too.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 3, 2022

It's a movie that gets by (and then some) on an intense and focused performance by character actor Clifton Collins Jr, and a truthful-feeling sense of place.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2022

If Oscar voters remembered Clifton Collins Jr.'s work in "Jockey" - or even saw it - he'd be winning best actor this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2022

A gorgeous film, but in a bizarrely empty way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2022

While there are a few plotting slip-ups here and there, Collins' electrifying performance carries this over the finish line.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2022

Filmmaker Clint Bentley makes a tender, visually poetic feature directorial debut with "Jockey," a closely observed portrait of a man embarking on the downslope of his career.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2022

Collins dominates the film, often in close-up, in a rich performance, and is ably assisted by Molly Parker, as the trainer, Ruth; and Moises Arias as his possible son, Gabriel.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 19, 2022

Everything feels real in the drama starring Clifton Collins Jr., just right as a veteran rider taking a risk by getting back in the saddle.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 19, 2022

Collins is so wonderfully genuine, so believable as someone who has seen a lot of stories like this play out and has a pretty good idea how this one ends, but wants to hang onto the reins for as long as he can anyway.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 11, 2022

We get one of these kinds of films every year... It does all depend on how much you care about the performances, and Collins Jr. really is good.

| Jan 7, 2022

An evocative, haunting, and pretty intimate character study.

| Jan 7, 2022

Jockey works because it has an expert rider who knows when to hold back and when to push something from a fast gallop to a sprint.

| Jan 4, 2022

The film also rates high on the pleasure scale for being a debut feature by abundantly gifted filmmakers and a showcase for a performance that fills your heart while frequently threatening to break it.

| Jan 3, 2022

Jockeyis one of those sleepers that makes even a bumpy moviegoing season worthwhile. The film rests on the foundation of Clifton Collins's underplayed performance-he is quietly persuasive and likable...a hardscrabble hero worth rooting for

| Jan 2, 2022

Collins, of course, is the movie's sturdy emotional spine, and Bentley wisely shoots him as such.

| Dec 30, 2021

Sentimental yet also trickier and more complex than its gleaming surfaces suggest, Jockey is a portrait of a man facing his mortality or at least professional redundancy.

| Dec 30, 2021