‘The Bikeriders’ Review: Jeff Nichols Rediscovers The Motorcycle Gang Code With Superb Cast Led By Jodie Comer, Austin Butler & Tom Hardy
deadline.comEditors Note: This review was originally published September 1, 2023 after the film’s world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.
The movie was originally to be released in December 2023 by 20th Century Studios before being derailed by the Hollywood strikes.
Focus Features is now distributing and released it in theaters Friday. Biker movies are almost a subgenre of films unto themselves, beginning with Marlon Brando’s The Wild One in the early ’50s and then through all those AIP exploitation titles of the ’60s including The Wild Angels, Hells Angels on Wheels and many more, notably Tom Laughlin’s predecessor to Billy Jack called Born Losers.
It all culminated with Easy Rider with Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, which became the Citizen Kane of biker cinema.
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