‘Motor City’ Review
‘Motor City’ ReviewA silent film for the modern age.Sonny Bunch24 JulyAlan Ritchson in Motor City. (Courtesy IFC)MOTOR CITY DERIVES FROM A SCRIPT that earned a spot on the Black List—a competition highlighting unique and unproduced screenplays—in the late ’00s. John.Eventually the stars aligned and the script found its way to also delightfully named Potsy Ponciroli (who directed the grimly intense Old Henry) and a bucket of cash from, among others, the free-spending indie distributor Black Bear. I can imagine regular filmgoers finding it off-putting, given that CinemaScore audiences gave John Woo’s Silent Night, which has a similar conceit—minimal dialogue, action-driven plot, lots of killing—a disastrous C.Me?
- ▪‘Motor City’ ReviewA silent film for the modern age.Sonny Bunch24 JulyAlan Ritchson in Motor City. (Courtesy IFC)MOTOR CITY DERIVES FROM A SCRIPT that earned a spot on the Black List—a competition highlighting unique and unproduced screenpl
- ▪John.Eventually the stars aligned and the script found its way to also delightfully named Potsy Ponciroli (who directed the grimly intense Old Henry) and a bucket of cash from, among others, the free-spending indie distributor Black Bear.
- ▪I can imagine regular filmgoers finding it off-putting, given that CinemaScore audiences gave John Woo’s Silent Night, which has a similar conceit—minimal dialogue, action-driven plot, lots of killing—a disastrous C.Me?
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| Original publisher | The Bulwark |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thebulwark.com/p/motor-city-review |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:42:20 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-24T06:45:54.213Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-24T06:45:54.213Z |
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‘Motor City’ ReviewA silent film for the modern age.Sonny Bunch24 JulyAlan Ritchson in Motor City. (Courtesy IFC)MOTOR CITY DERIVES FROM A SCRIPT that earned a spot on the Black List—a competition highlighting unique and unproduced screenplays—in the late ’00s. Virtually dialogue-free and entirely dependent upon the staging and the action to get its point across, the film bounced around Hollywood for the last decade and a half, garnering interest and helping the writer earn gigs like London Has Fallen and Peppermint (an entirely underrated revenge thriller), but never attracting a studio brave enough to execute on the vision of the delightfully named Chad St.
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