Kill the Jockey

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Kill the Jockey

2025

1h 36m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

Crime

Comedy

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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

Jul 10

2.5/5

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

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Jul 10

3.5/4

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

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

Jul 2

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

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

Dec 25

This movie rules- super-stylish and a lot of fun.

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Nicolás Medina

Peliplat

Dec 4

3/10

Instead of imparting a subtle lesson, it ends up becoming an instruction manual on what should be obvious, as if it wanted to boast about a flat aestheticism with great fanfare. [Full review in Spanish]

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Oct 3

4/5

This is a delightfully surreal film in which each scene plays out in ways we can't possibly predict.

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Pillow L

@PillowLover625 Apr 11

Chicken jockey if it was bad

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Don H

@deafmix3 Feb 23

Fans of Buster Keaton and early Pedro Almodovar should love this. Which is to say a surreal, alternate universe black comedy. Any critic missing the Buster Keaton homage is not worth his/her salt.

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Matthew R

@RT52830269 Dec 7

Yeah, that was dumb. Wasn't able to follow the plot of what was happening. The again, im not the sharpest tool in the shed.

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Germán M

@RT68449428 Nov 16

Película de director joven, con acomodo y plata, que no se la juega. Más bien "se hace el raro", desconectando todo el tiempo la trama de lo que está mostrando. ¿Algo le parece loco, fuera de lugar, disruptivo, pseudo provocador? Lo incluye. No fascina, ni convence ni conmueve. Para jugarse en serio debería contar una historia en serio, que convenza y conmueva a través del mensaje, no a través recurso por el recurso mismo. Mientras tenga miedo al fracaso seguirá haciendo "pelis locas".

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MB C

@MB.Cinema Nov 12

A surreal drama about a drug-addicted jockey who loses himself after a mysterious accident blurs reality and identity....Nahuel Pérez Biscayart delivers a haunting, physical performance that anchors the chaos....Visually stunning but emotionally distant, the film drowns in its own symbolism and stylized excess....Its first half is sharp and alive, but the second drifts into abstraction with little payoff....Themes of rebirth, addiction, and fractured self echo with ambition yet lack coherence....A bold, beautiful mess more dream than drama....

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Vince Q.

@Vincedeq Nov 1

This was Argentina’s submission for AAMPAS’ Best Foreign Language Film in 2024. A crafty script combined with excellent production value makes this ninety minutes well worth the watch.

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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, Julio Chavezmontes, Benicio del Toro, Pablo Fernández Masó, Santiago Gallelli, Enrique López Lavigne, Delfina Montecchia, Diego Suarez Chialvo
Screenwriter: 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
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 2, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $89.5K
Runtime: 1h 36m