Magazine Dreams is a Magnum Opus of a character study that actors act their whole lives for, and most never achieve the heights of.
I might have never witnessed a character as tragic, and heartbreaking, as Killian Maddox, played to legendary perfection by Johnathan Majors, in what is surely, without question in my mind, an all time movie character that unfortunately - but hopefully not - will go unnoticed due to his legal problems in the recent past. Regardless, this is a masterpiece of a performance.
In film, these fully-fleshed out humans seldom come to us, people with real thoughts, actual intentions and actions behind their every word, choice, step, breath, and when they do, we must rejoice in the cosmic powers of the top-to-bottom, head-to-toe, A-Z coverage of the person completely and masterfully. He truly is a spectacle in this film, which goes without saying will stand the test of time for what actors should point to as a North Star of performing.
This entire film is one giant example of going to the Mariana Trench of acting and taking a shovel with you. Dig as deep as you can, and never look back up. He didn't, he just kept digging, digging and digging....
And what a tunnel he excavated.
I mean, wow.
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