McVeigh

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McVeigh

Mar 2025

1h 30m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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A haunting psychological thriller based on one of America's most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. What follows are the harrowing events leading up to the single deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

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Ross McIndoe

Slant Magazine

Mar 5

2.5/4

McVeigh’s ominous atmosphere is omnipresent, clinging to Timothy like a dog to a bone.

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

06/10/2024

These films have sometimes been accused of exploitation, but the time is more than right for a movie like “McVeigh,” which records how its subject’s descent into terrorism was propelled by the ideas of the new right-wing zealotry.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

Mar 28

... establishes an underlying tension as it moves toward an inevitable outcome, but doesn’t provide much fresh perspective on the broader underground radicalization of ideological extremists or fringe groups, despite the contemporary parallels.

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Jesse Doppelt

Spectrum Culture

Mar 26

Mike Ott succeeds in avoiding the glorification of Timothy McVeigh, but in doing so, he also sacrifices emotional investment, resulting in a film that, while thought-provoking, often feels distant and difficult to watch.

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John Serba

Decider

Mar 24

McVeigh is a tough sell, and far from “entertaining.” But as a snapshot of a reprehensible human being, it’s an effective and upsetting reflection of the way things were in America, and continue to be.

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

Mar 24

Well-made, in the sense that the dialogue and behavior is all credible, the performances are good, and the imagery is consistently bleakly handsome.

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TheDirk

Oct 5

Well, there is good. And there is not good. This is not good. Silence does not convey emotion. A film that did everything besides show what actually happened.

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Les N

Apr 2

Why did they try to make him more charismatic and better looking?

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Tori T

Mar 24

I fell asleep and had to start it over. Extremely boring and took out the actual facts.

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Kevin M

Mar 24

An absolute waste of time. 90 minutes of a brooding, pensive McVeigh smoking cigarettes in darkened rooms. Awful

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Brian C

Mar 24

I really enjoyed this film. Excellent cast and great tension. Only reason I'm holding back the final star is because I would have loved to see how they caught him in the end. Really enjoyed this though.

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Stan M

Mar 24

There is nothing to it. Ninety minutes of a lifeless character wordlessly staring on camera leading up to an ending that we all know, rather clumsily represented by a bad photo montage. The film makes no effort to develop McVeigh's character, provide insight into who he was or--most significantly in our current national mment--explain what motivated him to commit one of the worst crimes in our history. He starts the film as a weird guy silently driving a car and the film ends with him silently driving a truck en route to the Murrah Building with almost nothing in between except pictures of him staring, reading and stacking fertilizer. I am not really sure what the point of the film is but for me it was a total waste of time and money. The movie is a wasted opportunity to explore abnormality. It ends up being an exploration of staring at the camera.

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A haunting psychological thriller based on one of America's most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. What follows are the harrowing events leading up to the single deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Director: Mike Ott
Producer: Miles Alva, Nicolaas Bertelsen, Joe Pirro, Monte Zajicek
Screenwriter: Alex Gioulakis, Mike Ott
Distributor: DECAL
Production Co: Rouge Wave Pictures, CinemaWerks, Symbolic Exchange
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 21, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 21, 2025
Runtime: 1h 30m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.66:1)

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