“That’s pressure!” As an aged wrestler with oversized calloused hands grips the temples of his sons, he barks, sans remorse, the glaringly obvious — I’m putting pressure on you! — over their piercing cries of pain. In this moment, Fritz Von Erich, reincarnated for the screen by Holt McCallany, lays bare the muscle tissue underlying The Iron Claw: a seemingly invincible family who collapse under the burdensome weight of unwanted ambitions.

From director Sean Durkin and renowned arthouse studio A24, The Iron Claw is a handsome and devastating biographical period drama about the real-life tragedy of the Von Erich brothers, who for a brief moment in time dazzled the professional wrestling scene via their father’s Texas-based promotion World Class Championship Wrestling. Though Durkin’s movie isn’t terribly innovative in its stagecraft, it is overwhelming as an emotionally impactful drama that soars thanks to its sublime direction and its terrific actors who overpower the screen with their sweaty, out-of-breath efforts.

Joel Kinnaman is a man of very specific action. Whether as Rick Flag in the Suicide Squad films, as Kovacs in Altered Carbon, or the formidable Godlock in John Woo’s latest action opus, Silent Night, he’s the sort of action star who comes across as raw and dangerous. But the proof of Joel Kinnaman’s layered talents can be found in the multi-generational Apple TV sci-fi epic series For All Mankind, now in the midst of its critically acclaimed fourth season.

Since 2019, Kinnaman has played the show’s lead, Ed Baldwin, who begins his journey as an Apollo astronaut in 1969 in Season 1. By Season 4, it’s 2003, and Ed is pushing 80, but still living on the Mars colony Happy Valley. At 44 in real life, Kinnaman is convincingly playing nearly double his age but, as he tells Inverse, this is the moment he has been waiting for since getting cast in the first place.