Muscle is a vivid nightmare of trauma that has been completely impossible to fully remove from my mind since first watching it about a year and a half ago. It is quite possibly the most unique depiction of abuse and desire coexisting and building off of each other that I have ever witnessed, it’s an experience that I doubt will be replicated by any other piece of art I’ll ever engage with.

Trauma is a vague concept that is nearly…

It's shocking to see so many people claim that this film is full of conservative pandering and bigotry, especially considering that absolutely no one is spared in terms of this film's assessment of the human race. It's nothing but cinematic anger and frustration put into a two and a half hour epic of societal deconstruction, by far the most brutal film from S. Craig Zahler yet, in a narrative sense. It's much less graphic than the director's previous two films…