Kill the Jockey

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Kill the Jockey

Released Jul 2

1h 36m

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Once-renowned jockey Remo Manfredi (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) has run out of track. Perpetually inebriated, hopped up on horse drugs, and in hock to a minor mafioso, Remo seems to have a death wish. His girlfriend and fellow jockey Abril (Úrsula Corberó) is pregnant, but more invested in the libidinous equestrian underworld than in their drab domestic existence. Remo's only hope of getting out of debt and starting a new life is riding on Mishima, a thoroughbred specially imported from Japan for his next big race. When Mishima leaps over the fence, Remo winds up in the hospital with a life-threatening concussion. Hunted by the mob and replaced in Abril's bed by the alluring Ana (Mariana Di Girolamo), Remo dons a disguise and finds himself as herself, wandering the streets of Buenos Aires in a striking mink coat and going by the name Dolores. A wild and surreal crime comedy from Luis Ortega (El Angel), Kill the Jockey explores the fluidity of identity, desire, and animal magnetism in a wholly original and unpredictable register.

Critics Consensus

With Nahuel Pérez Biscayart's captivating performance holding the reins, Kill the Jockey is an absorbing and wryly subversive riff on identity.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

Unfortunately, the script by Ortega, his El Angel cowriter Rodolfo Palacios, and Fabian Casas cannot equal what Salminen and Biscayart do wordlessly.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jul 10, 2025

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Biscayart’s kaleidoscopic performance is something exciting to behold, as is Ortega’s vision of the film and this character.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jul 10, 2025

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

Kill the Jockey” devolves into gangster mayhem, the whole story starts to feel unconsidered, almost perfunctory.

Jul 2, 2025

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Dave Giannini

Geek Vibes Nation

Kill The Jockey is one to hold on to for 2025. It will certainly not cater to all tastes, but for those of us with strange, or even queer, sensibilities, Luis Ortega has opened the door to a film world that felt not only closed, but locked.

Rated: 8/10

Jul 20, 2025

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Sean P. Means

The Movie Cricket

Trying to pin down Ortega’s directing style, I’d put it at 40% Pedro Almodovar, 40% Wes Anderson and about 20% David Lynch.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 18, 2025

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

An enigmatic whatsit that’s refreshingly oddball and assured, well worth a look for the adventurous.

Jul 9, 2025

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revolver.0 8

jodorowsky wanna be!

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/20/25

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Audience Member

Unbearable. Left the theater half an hour into the movie.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/13/25

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Kieran S

It had bad storytelling and a boring plot. I wish I could give it zero stars my brother made me watch it again (I still hated it) and screamed chicken jockey the whole time. I thought it would be good but it sucked. 🤮🤮🤮

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/12/25

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BRENDEN J

Chicken Jockey but worse.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/10/25

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Marcelo T

Una Genialidad argentina, comedia al estilo El Gran Hotel Budapest

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/09/25

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Greg K

This might be a bit spoilery, but most reviews seem to be taking the film's events as actually happening in the film's universe, with magical surrealism sprinkled in places on top as some sort of party trick the director leans heavily into to dazzle and distract. It might be better to think that nothing on screen after the doctor says that Remo's injuries are incompatible with life and before the [re-]birth of Lola are "real." Feels like they are more the final thoughts and dreams of a dying person coming to some sort of peace and understanding of who they are and have been, and imagining the things they might have done. This is not a gangster movie so much as a deathbed confession or hallucination -- unreal and hyper-real, fantastic. And the clues about the unreliability of the narrative that we see aren't particularly subtle -- the scales, the mirror, the impossible things. The film deliberately attacks the viewer's suspension of disbelief to create an unsettled and questioning experience, to present its own truth without ever giving straightforward answers. It is unapologetically what it is. What you see in it may depend on what you yourself bring to it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/07/25

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Synopsis

Once-renowned jockey Remo Manfredi (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) has run out of track. Perpetually inebriated, hopped up on horse drugs, and in hock to a minor mafioso, Remo seems to have a death wish. His girlfriend and fellow jockey Abril (Úrsula Corberó) is pregnant, but more invested in the libidinous equestrian underworld than in their drab domestic existence. Remo's only hope of getting out of debt and starting a new life is riding on Mishima, a thoroughbred specially imported from Japan for his next big race. When Mishima leaps over the fence, Remo winds up in the hospital with a life-threatening concussion. Hunted by the mob and replaced in Abril's bed by the alluring Ana (Mariana Di Girolamo), Remo dons a disguise and finds himself as herself, wandering the streets of Buenos Aires in a striking mink coat and going by the name Dolores. A wild and surreal crime comedy from Luis Ortega (El Angel), Kill the Jockey explores the fluidity of identity, desire, and animal magnetism in a wholly original and unpredictable register.

Director: Luis Ortega
Producer: Charlie Cohen, Isaac Lee, Axel Kuschevatzky, Paz Lázaro, Cindy Teperman, Esteban Perroud, Luis Ortega
Screenwriter: Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios, Fabian Casas
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Infinity Films, Exile Content Studio, Rei Cine
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Crime, Comedy
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 2, 2025, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $31.7K
Runtime: 1h 36m