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The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy
Verified TMDB Critic
2026-07-29
Alfred Hitchcock once declared that filmmakers "should only resort to dialogue when it is completely impossible to tell the story visually" and famously critiqued dialogue-heavy films as merely "photographs of people talking."
However one approaches director Potsy Ponciroli's **MOTOR CITY**, one thing becomes immediately clear: this is a visual story that throws out the rulebook of more traditional action films.
With nearly zero dialogue -- co-star Ben MacKenzie's character never utters a single word -- and an enviable 1970s soundtrack -- Ponciroli picks up Hitchcock's gauntlet and de...