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On Rotten Tomatoes, 63% of 97 critic reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.1 out of 10. The website’s consensus reads: "Motor City's deliberate lack of dialogue occasionally backfires in a story that winds up running on fumes, but a rollicking soundtrack and visual panache soup up the engine enough to deliver a memorable ride." According to Metacritic, the film received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 from 18 critic scores.
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60 of 197 · most liked firstReally liked MOTOR CITY. It's like a Craig Zahler film you don't have to feel weird about watching.
positive · AI labelView post →Just got out of MOTOR CITY, the Alan Ritchson 70s revenge flick. By design it had like 10 (short) lines of dialogue in the whole movie; soundtrack/shots/fx are driving the car here. The action here is brutal but minimal (until act 3), including a small-space elevator fight à la MAYHEM!.
positive · AI labelView post →I took my oldest friend, best bud from high school, to see Motor City at an early morning show today, because it was the kind of movie we'd have seen together on a Friday immediately after school was out. He loved it as much as I did. Not many people in the theater -- maybe a dozen.
positive · AI labelView post →"If gonzo projects like these are how Alan Ritchson plans to spend the cultural capital he’s accrued by playing Jack Reacher, let’s hope he’s surrounded himself with the most irresponsible advisors who ever lived." On Motor City. What a picture! www.rogerebert.com/reviews/moto...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, they've finally made "Motor City", a film I storyboarded back in 2012. They've kept the "money shot" I concepted (and added a wedding ring)! Back then, Dominic Cooper was attached to star... but not for long.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jane Schoenbrun's TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (which will likely be my favorite film of the year); THE OUTER THREAT (2026); THE BELOVED (2026); and MOTOR CITY (2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →Can a (mostly) silent film work nowadays? Kind of! ICYMI @sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews "Motor City":
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched 📽️🍿 Motor City (2026) Evil Dead Burn (2026) Jason and the Argonauts (1963) The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
neutral · AI labelView post →"'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." It's finally here...and it might have been worth the wait:
neutral · AI labelView post →Motor City ⁞2025 www.imdb.com/title/tt2012616 #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovies #slashers ·in 1970s Detroit, John Miller falls for a local gangster's girl. in retaliation, the gangster enacts a frame job to send the innocent man to prison. his life ruined, Miller plots a revenge campaign...·
neutral · AI labelView post →For the #MotorCity premiere at the #VeniceFilmFestival, Shailene Woodley found the perfect dress for her: high impact/low effort (click for more) tomandlorenzo.com/2025/09/veni...
neutral · AI labelView post →RUN, do not walk to see MOTOR CITY! Great action movie that, IMO, cements Alan Ritchson's place in action movie history. I had fun counting what I believe to be Paul Schrader homages. Shailene Woodley is likewise fantastic. GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!
positive · AI labelView post →"'Motor City' works almost entirely because we understand the language of cinematic tropes that St. John and Ponciroli are playing with....One could argue that this renders the film little more than a collection of clichés." Or not:
neutral · AI labelView post →Motor City isn’t officially a Christmas movie, but it has a holiday sequence that scores a harrowing moment to the Ray Conniff version of “Carol of the Bells.” #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies Chunks the obvious stand out this week. F1 and Brand New Day had a lot of good stuff, but were bogged down with pacing issues and just generally being too long. Motor City was a snooze of an action flick.
negative · AI labelView post →Funny timing: this song is used well in new movie Motor City.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is petty but there's a review out of there of MOTOR CITY by a major critic that I thought was so unbelievably off-base in its assessment of how the movie uses music that I did kinda write my review as a rebuke to it. www.avclub.com/motor-city-r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Shailene Woodley attending the ‘Motor City’ Red carpet during the 82nd Venice Film Festival Via IG September 2025. 🔰 That beautiful deep cleavage 🧐 #ShaileneWoodley
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw MOTOR CITY at TIFF last fall, knowing nothing about it except the cast, that it was a crime movie, and that Jack White was involved with the soundtrack. Now that it's getting a release, I've been enjoying seeing people realize what a disappointment the Jack White part is.
negative · AI labelView post →Jack White is the musical director for the new Detroit-set experimental film 'Motor City,' which only features four lines of dialogue. Check out the trailer, which is set to "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac:
neutral · AI labelView post →Seeing lots of angry user reviews for MOTOR CITY on Prime, all of them furious that the movie has almost no dialogue, complaining that it’s some artsy-fartsy rip-off. This is a movie in which Alan Ritchson fires a shotgun through the windshield of a speeding car. It’s not fucking SOLARIS.
positive · AI labelView post →MOTOR CITY (2025) Streaming: November 6, 2026 AMC+ #MotorCity whentostream.com/alan-ritchso...
neutral · AI labelView post →MOTOR CITY: If there’s anyone meant to be the kooky, manic bad guy in a near-dialogue-free crime film it’s Ben Foster, and if anyone was gonna be the musclebound himbo who’s great at gun and punch eating his lunch it’s got to, GOT TO be Alan Ritchson.
neutral · AI labelView post →MOTOR CITY (2025) Streaming: August 25, 2026 PVOD (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.) #MotorCity whentostream.com/alan-ritchso...
neutral · AI labelView post →Pizza and a movie night! Pizza: Motor City Pizza Double Pepperoni Movie: on the #Criterion Channel, Jean Arthur in the rom-com "More Than a Secretary" (d. Alfred E. Green 1936) a film chock full of sexism & a little racism. "You're like all those other women in business...you won't keep your place!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Detroit's own crime-fighter #RoboCop finally stands guard in Motor City The large bronze mold-cast statue is bolted into concrete www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Motor City. Sadly, it wasn’t very good.
negative · AI labelView post →Well that was unexpectedly brilliant . Only 2 lines of dialogue in the whole film Motor City 2025
positive · AI labelView post →You are not allowed to have a movie called "MOTOR CITY" and then not have a single Detroit music act in your "with music from" slide, sorry.
negative · AI labelView post →331) Motor City 5/10 What if an action movie was also a 90 minute experimental music video? Look, this thing is a trope parade. I can't say anything about it that it doesn't say by having <20 words of spoken dialog in the whole thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the new "Unabomber" film on Netflix Shailene Woodley gives another great performance as a maverick, intelligent female cop She also gave great performances this year in Paradise and with Alan Ritchson (Reacher) in Motor City She's always worth watching in any film or tv series
neutral · AI labelView post →MOTOR CITY wins the award for the “most rad movie of the year and most tailor made for me” category. It’s rarely handed out so early in the year but this is a special situation. I hope all competitors understand.
positive · AI labelView post →Spider-man? The Odyssey?? Nah. I’m all-in on MOTOR CITY. An almost zero-dialogue action flick that takes place in the 70s. I’d call it a period piece, but it’s more like an exclamation point ❗️ Alan Ritchson needs to play BJ Blazkowicz in a Wolfenstein movie ASAP
positive · AI labelView post →Fun fact the Motor City movie is entirely dialogue free. Just big lad wrecking fools on a quest for revenge.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alan Ritchson isn't the new Arnie or Sly Stallone. He's the new Charles Bronson and the heir to Bo Svenson, and Motor City should be your new favorite action flick of the year. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie out this weekend that I quite liked, contra many of my colleagues, is HER PRIVATE HELL, which I wasn't able to review anywhere. But it's beautiful and incomprehensible an stars Sophie Thatcher; that's cinema to me. Unfortunately I'm less taken with MOTOR CITY www.avclub.com/motor-city-r...
negative · AI labelView post →I feel like I'm in a relatively small minority of film people legitimately looking forward to Motor City later this week. Bad wigs, sure, but I'm deciding to be optimistic regarding the action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Rk...
positive · AI labelView post →The trailer for Motor City looks ridiculous. I’ll be there opening weekend! youtu.be/JHMPxTWI4sQ?...
positive · AI labelView post →There's some movie coming out called "Motor City," set in Detroit...and yeah...no...that should be a Coney Island. No one calls them diners here. Sure, people might not get it, but we deserve real Detroit representation.
negative · AI labelView post →Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster kept it shady at the #TorontoInternationalFilmFestival premiere of #MotorCity tomandlorenzo.com/2025/09/toro...
neutral · AI labelView post →i don't understand threading here so: My cousin's note on her Zola gift to us is just a quote from my favorite movie, True Romance. "I had to come all the way from the highways and byways of Tallahassee, Florida to Motor City Detroit to find my true love."
neutral · AI labelView post →I like the premise. Have either of you watched MOTOR CITY? It’s a feature length action movie with almost no dialogue. The reception to it has been divisive but I dug it.
positive · AI labelView post →Making an action movie seems easy on paper, but Motor City is the proof that making a GOOD action movie is anything but.
negative · AI labelView post →My understanding is that Angel picked up distribution after the movie was made. So it’s just a generic action movie, not specifically written with Christian nationalist intent. But I suppose watching it would technically be good for Angel, so maybe we should all just watch Motor City to be safe.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lots of people love Reacher. And yet, very few of them went to see the actor's recent film, MOTOR CITY, which was 90 mins of pure action.
neutral · AI labelView post →Motor City (2025) - 1970s Detroit, a factory worker falls for a local girl. What follows is a unique action movie with almost no dialog. www.imdb.com/title/tt2012...
neutral · AI labelView post →We screened the Alan Ritchson vehicle Motor City at the local film society, and were bracing for our audience of mainly retirees, including older women who remark they’re not fond of violence, to be displeased. Survey scores were good and “Alan Ritchson revs my engine” was a characteristic comment
positive · AI labelView post →Movie Review: Motor City (2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →What if you made an action/revenge movie, set in the 1970s, with Alan Ritchson and ... hear me out ... used NO dialogue! Welcome to MOTOR CITY, a movie that relies on musical cues and facial expressions almost exclusively to tell its story. Um ... it doesn't work. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
negative · AI labelView post →Saw Motor City yesterday and if anything am probably being too nice about a movie that takes place in Detroit but couldn’t be bothered to call a diner a Coney Island.
negative · AI labelView post →I was the only person in the theater when I saw Motor City too and because I went into it without any info I sat there for 15 minutes thinking there was something wrong with the theater's copy of the movie because there was no dialogue just music.
neutral · AI labelView post →Motor City, starring Alan Ritchson, is in theaters tonight. www.metacritic.com/movie/motor-... “Motor City feels like a lost B-movie from a bygone era, channeling the spirit of the vigilante films and other exploitation genres of the 1970s.” - Anzhe Zhang, Slant
neutral · AI labelView post →We caught Alan Ritchon's new action flick Motor City at the Toronto International Film Fest last year - find out if you should be watching it in theaters this weekend.
neutral · AI labelView post →Motor City Review A stripped-bare action film that succeeds despite its silent gimmick www.ign.com/articles/mot...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tired of exposition? Well, one of the most bombastic movies out of #TIFF50 has you covered! #MotorCity is a rocking, almost entirely dialogue-free action thriller set in 1970s Detroit. Motor City cruises into theaters on July 24th, but you can watch my review right now! youtu.be/pQgIPkEEHHU
neutral · AI labelView post →Went and saw MOTOR CITY with my mum ☺ after work it was a fantastic movie with a kickass 70's soundtrack! Just combination of silent movie and action movie just PEAK experience i definitely recommend this movie once it fully comes out in theaters! #AMCseenunseen #monochrome #monochromemonday #sfw
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve been seeing trailer spots for a movie called Motor City and how long is Alan Ritchson going to be stuck as Reacher, Redneck Reacher, Downtown Reacher, British Reacher… Reacher in a funny hat?
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of Motor City has been quoted on Coming Soon! www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun day at Motor City Comic Con. Was feeling Marvel movie adaptations.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Motor City” (#TIFF50) is a dialogue-free action film (headlined by Alan Ritchson and Shailene Woodley) that’s little more than a flashy stunt.
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