内容摘要：Waste picker Rajdin, 17, looks for recyclable material during a heat wave at a garbage dump on outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Waste picker Rajdin, 17, looks for recyclable material during a heat wave at a garbage dump on outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

, it was also eclipsed by the very real-life travails of its star, who was convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend.In January 2023, “Magazine Dreams” had an exciting future with Oscar hopes for Majors. Searchlight Pictures won the distribution rights, reportedly over the likes of Neon and Sony Pictures Classics. And Majors was

and as Marvel’s new main villain, Kang. But two months later, he was arrested. By that December,of one misdemeanor assault charge and one harassment violation and. A month later, “Magazine Dreams” was without distribution. Majors has, throughout it all, maintained his innocence.

The film was eventually picked up by, the same distributor who jumped in to release the young Donald Trump movie “The Apprentice” after the rest of the entertainment business shied away from it. “The Apprentice” went on to get

But there’s a different kind of stigma around “Magazine Dreams,” which is why this review has also been a bit eclipsed by what’s happened in Majors’ life. It’s a film about a man teetering on the edge of violence, about the relentless pursuit of greatness — and it is deeply uncomfortable watching his descent.

His simplistic devotion to one wild goal may be his undoing in a world that just doesn’t care about him. This is not the movie that any public relations professional would choose as a “comeback role.” Yet it’s impossible to deny the monumental ferocity of Majors’ performance, from his full transformation to his unsettling ability to show the pain behind (most of) the psychotic actions.Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)People walk through the town near the coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

People walk through the town near the coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)Two women stand together in the town near the coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)