This image released by Focus Features shows Jodie Comer, left, and Austin Butler in a scene from “The Bikeriders.” This image released by Focus Features shows Austin Butler, left, and Jodie Comer in a scene from “The Bikeriders.” This image released by Focus Features shows Austin Butler, left, and Tom Hardy in a scene from “The Bikeriders.” This image released by Focus Features shows Damon Herriman, left, and Tom Hardy in a scene from “The Bikeriders.
Nichols, a devotee of films like “Hud” and “Cool Hand Luke,” is a filmmaker who works very consciously within classic American idioms. In Butler he has his James Dean, making Tom Hardy his Marlon Brando. Hardy plays Johnny, Benny’s best pal and the one who starts up and presides over the Vandals. Kathy isn’t so sure sure. She watches the growing gang — a completely male bunch — with skepticism and fear for Benny. Sometimes, they throw down purely for fun. They are the original Fight Cub.
As the Vandals’ original ideals disintegrate, it can feel like “The Bikeriders” gets locked into a familiar “Goodfellas”-like structure, but with a telling shift in narrator for a drama that’s ultimately about masculinity. This is a movie that’s juggling a lot of contradictory ambitions. It wants to be authentic but it wants to tell a grand America saga. It wants mythology but also naturalism.
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