The cast gives their all, but the film ultimately has nothing to offer.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2023

Manodrome makes all the obvious moves.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2023

With the help of a hideous haircut, Eisenberg gives a convincing performance as a repressed loser who never discovered who he is and has officially run out of time to start. But Trengrove’s script is as directionless as his protagonist.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 10, 2023

It's Eisenberg who finds Ralphie in those narrative spaces, creating a whole and crushingly convincing portrait of a profoundly lost man, and the damage left in his wake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2023

Crude and sensationalizing, “Manodrome” is like an amalgam of all the headlines you’ve read about the kinds of men who succumb to warped ideologies.

| Nov 9, 2023

While John Trengrove’s skill is apparent in the slow build of tension, it also stands out in the arguably more impressive way that he holds Ralphie’s view of the world separate from that of the film’s.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2023

The helmer has set out to shock and surprise, but the twists instead just feel rigged to reaffirm his own views of toxic masculinity.

| Feb 19, 2023

While Brody brings effortless authority to his role as the soft-spoken but creepy cult leader, the film has more or less jumped the shark by the time we get a full picture of what his retreat for wounded men is all about.

| Feb 19, 2023

The film’s base elements and intentions are interesting, but it doesn’t offer much in terms of original insight.

| Feb 17, 2023