Very funny, very awkward, very Jared Hess. Hess is always so good at capturing the clumsiness of human beings, in a way that feels very realistic. I believe this is part of what makes his films amusing & relatable and I really feel this come through with Gentlemen Broncos.
Jermaine Clement’s character, Ronald Chevalier, is probably my favourite character. He has so many hilarious lines I’ll be repeating to people with no context for the next week.
Lines like,
“We can add ‘onius,’ ‘ainous,’ or ‘anous’ to just about anything, and it becomes magical.”
or,
“Take him away. But, please, show leniency. Always leniency.”
This character is so well written and feels like a great stereotype for a writer that’s too full of themselves.
The scenes from his book that they actually shot (not the ones his ‘friends’ made) are what drew me to the film, I think I saw them in a YouTube Short or Instagram Reel or something. They just seemed so outlandish.
At first I thought it was that fever dream A.I. slop you see online all the time, but it immediately captured the strange-receptors in my brain so I checked the comments and saw people had left a movie title.
I’d never heard of this film before this, but I’m glad to add it to my 2026 films list.