The Bikeriders (2024)
Directed by Jeff Nichols
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
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Another element that stood out to me was the costuming, led by Erin Benach, who collaborated previously with Nichols on Midnight Special and Loving (she also designed the costumes for Drive, presumably having a hand in the now-iconic Scorpio bomber worn by Ryan Gosling).
The Bikeriders is Nichols’ biggest commercial swing yet, even outpacing his sci-fi Steven Spielberg homage Midnight Special in its ambitions. The budget is bigger, the scope is wider, and the cast is starrier. But Nichols doesn’t lose his focus on characters — the same focus that made his early, Southern-set work stick with us.
In The Bikeriders, writer-director Jeff Nichols’s (Loving, Midnight Special, Take Shelter) first film in nearly a decade (offset, in part, by a year-long delay caused by the writer’s strike and a studio/distributor switch), Johnny (Tom Hardy), the founder and leader of the ‘60s-era Vandals MC (Motorcycle Club), finds inspiration for his riding club arrives in the form of the television broadcast of Marlon Brando’s seminal 1953 outlaw biker flick, The Wild One.
He won't be tamed, the sixth feature from writer/director Jeff Nichols after Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special and Loving establishes early.
Writer/director Jeff Nichols has forged his reputation on acclaimed character dramas, like the cryptic Take Shelter, the moody Mud, and the haunting sci-fi offering Midnight Special.
Another element that stood out to me was the costuming, led by Erin Benach, who collaborated previously with Nichols on Midnight Special and Loving (she also designed the costumes for Drive, presumably having a hand in the now-iconic Scorpio bomber worn by Ryan Gosling).