Tom Hardy’s Bronson Climbs HBO Max Top 10

Tom Hardy’s ferocious 2008 turn in Bronson has returned to HBO Max and is steadily climbing the platform’s Top 10, per FlixPatrol. The film is outpacing comfort-watch staples like The Notebook and closing in on prestige favorites such as The Shape of Water.

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson is a loose biographical account of Britain’s most notorious prisoner — the man who legally renamed himself after the actor. It follows him from a violence-prone child to an adult who spends decades bouncing between prisons and psychiatric institutions, often in solitary confinement; he insists he’s never killed anyone and seeks fame, turning to art when fists stop scratching that itch.

Collider’s Steve Weintraub, who saw the film at Sundance in 2009, praised the physicality of Hardy’s performance, asking, “Where did that come from?!” Bronson is available to stream on HBO Max in America.

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