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Plot: A haunting psychological thriller based on one of America’s most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. What follows are the harrowing events leading up to the single deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Review: Anyone around in the 90s likely remembers the name Timothy McVeigh. And if you don’t, chances are the words “Oklahoma City Bomber” ring a bell at least. Serving as the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in US History, the bombings were an absolutely tragic loss of life. Now, McVeigh looks to shed light on the motivations of the two bombers: Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh.

McVeigh is a slow-burn story that follows Timothy as he gets radicalized after the Waco shootings. He viewed himself as a constitutionalist and felt the government was fascist, not following the Declaration of Independence as intended.

As a psychological crime thriller, McVeigh (2025) relies on the tense atmosphere surrounding its characters. It centers around a war veteran who commits an act of domestic terrorism. Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones) plays Timothy McVeigh, a real-life terrorist the film is based upon, who is the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Mike Ott has directed this film, whose efforts turn it into a brooding affair. The entire film feels like the silence before the storm. It shows McVeigh slowly getting sucked into a destructive philosophy that destroys several lives.

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McVeigh (2025) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

Mike Ott’s direction makes McVeigh appear like a gradually escalating affair, leading up to something devastating. However, it steers clear of using heightened moments, turning the film into a study of the character’s indecipherable interiority. The film moves at a glacial pace and presents its protagonist as an enigma, whose...

It’s not the easiest task to talk to actors about such dark subject matter, especially when the events are based on reality. Brett Gelman gets into all of the research that went into his role as Terry Nichols, McVeigh’s partner and the one who taught him how to build bombs. I was then shocked to discover that Ashley Benson had been involved with the project for nearly 6 years! Anthony Carrigan was more soft-spoken, and I wish I could have gotten into something lighter like his Barry days. But he gets into what kind of research he was able to do, given that his character was mostly based on an unknown third assailant.

McVeigh is “a haunting psychological thriller based on one of America’s most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. What follows are the harrowing...

Timothy McVeigh ruthlessly murdered 167 men, women, and children when he bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. McVeigh does not portray this man as a monster with devil's horns and scales. Director/co-writer Mike Ott uses subtlety to craft a chilling portrayal of a calculating white supremacist hellbent on causing the most carnage possible. You could have passed him on the street without much outward clue of his malicious intentions. McVeigh operated quietly in the shadows, but had allies and accomplices that shared his heinous vision. This is the most disturbing aspect of the film.

Alfie Allen stars as McVeigh. We first see him getting pulled over by a state trooper. He uses a fake driver's license to conceal his true identity. There doesn't seem to be anything threatening about the soft-spoken man. He's...

Ashley Benson, Anthony Carrigan & Brett Gelman speak with MovieWeb about their parts in the tense new film 'McVeigh,' which chronicles the alienation and anger of Timothy McVeigh and the events leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing. Anthony Carrigan also teases (in the smallest of ways) his character in James Gunn's upcoming 'Superman' movie. 'McVeigh' is in theaters, on digital, and on demand starting March 21, 2025, from Decal.

'McVeigh' is a haunting psychological thriller based on one of America's most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. What follows are the harrowing events leading up to the single deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

At a time when the stories behind shocking headlines are routinely turned into true crime podcasts and star-studded Netflix series, the question of how to tell them ethically is often raised. For its part, Mike Ott’s McVeigh delivers about as un-exploitative and un-sensationalized a depiction of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh as could possibly be imagined—to the point that, if anything, the film ends up understated to a fault.

McVeigh begins with Timothy (Alfie Allen) driving down a country road as weathered as his car. Nothing happens for a spell, until Timothy is pulled over by a cop. But nothing much happens at this point either, and Timothy is soon free to continue on his way. Something about the relative lack of incident and the dreary, sparse environment puts us on edge. From the start, McVeigh thrums with a sense of alienation and hostility so pronounced that even those...

"A movie rooted in small-town American rage." Yep it definitely seems like it. Decal Releasing has unveiled an official trailer for a psychological thriller film titled McVeigh, yes indeed about the notorious domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh. Not sure why we need this film right now? Or ever? McVeigh is directed by indie filmmaker Mike Ott, and it first premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival last year - it's next available to watch in March. A haunting psychological thriller based on one of America's most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. What follows are the harrowing events leading up to the single deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history - the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995. Starring Alfie Allen as Tim, Brett Gelman, Tracy Letts, Ashley Benson, and Anthony Carrigan. There was a movie just few...

“McVeigh,” which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and will soon be in theaters, tells the story behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 people dead and 675 injured.

Director Mike Ott’s narrative film “McVeigh” charts the days leading up to the attack, with Alfie Allen portraying domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh. Brett Gelman plays Terry Nichols, with “Barry” breakout Anthony Carrigan, Tracy Letts, and Ashley Benson co-starring.

“Actor Martinez” filmmaker Ott co-wrote the film with his “California Dreams” co-writer Alex Gioulakis.

The official synopsis reads: “A haunting psychological thriller based on one of America’s most infamous figures. After the Waco siege, a chilling plan brews in the mind of army veteran Timothy McVeigh. What follows are the harrowing events leading up to the single deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.”

“McVeigh” is produced by Miles Alva, Ash Christian, Nicolaas Bertelsen, Joe Pirro, Shaum S. Sengupta, and Monte Zajicek.

Last February, actress Ashley Benson welcomed her first baby with her husband Brandon Davis, an oil heir. The couple had a baby girl but have remained tight-lipped on any details about her. Today, the McVeigh star confirmed her daughter’s moniker in a post on Instagram.

In honor of National Daughter’s Day, Ashley shared a series of images with her first baby. The Wilderness star hid her daughter’s face with emojis, something she has done with every post featuring her daughter since her birth. One picture was a mirror selfie taken by the actress and her little one had a pacifier chain clipped to her onesie. The chain featured beads that spelled out her name: Aspen.

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This name reveal is not the first time the moniker has been shared, but it is the first time Ashley confirmed it.

On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, leaving 168 people dead in the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. The perpetrator was Timothy McVeigh, an Iraq war veteran disaffected with the government. Writer Alex Gioulakis and director Mike Ott seek to understand how such a tragedy could occur through their film McVeigh, starring Alfie Allen as McVeigh.

Shot in a mood-sobering style, Ott keeps viewers at arm’s length from McVeigh. Through master shots and meditative pacing, we observe his descent not as a thriller but as a study of radicalization emerging from the ordinary. McVeigh lives a mundane life—selling bumper stickers at gun shows alongside friend Terry and starting a relationship with Cindy. But political unrest simmers beneath the surface as he falters further into antigovernment ideology, impacted by events like the Waco siege.

In vivid yet restrained performances,...

Exclusive: Actor-turned filmmaker Clark Duke (Arkansas) has wrapped production on Stranglehold, a new comedic thriller in the vein of the Coen Brothers’s oeuvre for Yale Productions. Cast for the pic includes Ashley Benson (Wilderness), Emmy nominee Jake Lacy (Apples Never Fall), Justin Long (Barbarian) and Golden Globe winner Ron Perlman (The Instigators).

Written by Chandler Duke, Billington Garrett and Clark Duke, the film is billed as a Southern-fried siege, with shades of Dog Day Afternoon and Die Hard, which centers on Bailey (Benson), an exotic dancer with big dreams. She and her Army vet husband Tim (Lacy) are fed up with their lives of barely getting by in small-town Arkansas, so they decide to rob the strip club that employs her.

Producers include Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman and Michael Day of Yale Productions, along with Clark Duke. Exec producers are Rabbits Black’s Lawrence Minicone, Ronnie Exley, Jeremy Ross,...

The 2024 Tribeca Festival kicked off June 5 with the world premiere of the documentary Diane Furstenberg: Woman In Charge, launching the 12-day New York-set fest that features narrative and documentary competitions as well as a slew of A-list panels that always seem to make news.

Among the 108 feature films in this year’s lineup includes world premieres of movies starring Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone, Elizabeth Banks, Naomie Harris and Jenna Ortega to name a few. In addition to Furstenberg, high profile documentaries include Brats, Andrew McCarthy’s look back at the Brat Pack, and ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!, about South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone restoring an iconic Colorado restaurant.

Check out Deadline’s reviews from the festival, and keep checking back as new titles are added. Click on the film’s title to read our full review.

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Directors: Andrew McCarthy

With: Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy,...

By Abe Friedtanzer

It’s an unfortunate societal reality that the perpetrators of terrible crimes inevitably become famous. Rather than focus on immortalizing the names of the victims, it’s the person who took their lives who is often best remembered by the public. That may well be because it’s hard to understand what could push someone to do such a thing, and even with confessions, a motive may still remain unknown long after a criminal’s death. Mike Ott’s McVeigh looks at one of the most infamous domestic terrorists in United States history and constructs a narrative around why he did what he did...

Mike Ott’s McVeigh is an immersive, chilling, meticulously paced portrait of Timothy McVeigh, played by Alfie Allen, who embodies the bleak, quiet rage of the radicalized terrorist. Entering the story months before he carries out the deadliest attack of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, McVeigh is a loner who spends his days selling bumper stickers and books at gun shows and visiting with Richard Snell (Tracy Letts), a white supremacist on death row. Bothered by the political temperature of the era and Snell’s pending execution on the anniversary of the Waco Siege, McVeigh and Terry Nichols (Brett Gelman) start stockpiling weapons and planning an attack. The details of said attack are never mentioned. Ott and co-writer Alex Gioulakis instead meditate on the man’s psychology.

McVeigh is narratively sparse by design, making certain assumptions and taking liberties, such as the character of Cindy (Ashley Benson), a waitress...

“McVeigh,” a drama about Timothy McVeigh and the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, is a movie rooted in the forlorn underbelly of small-town American rage.

A car snakes its way along an empty road in the desolate dusk. Men nursing cheap beers sit around in roadside bars, strips clubs, or living rooms with ugly wood paneling. And Tim (Alfie Allen), an impassive loner whose scraggly beard is an outgrowth of his not bothering to shave, sits behind his table at a gun show, hawking $2 bumper stickers that say “When guns are outlawed, I will become an outlaw.” At home, he points a weapon at the TV set, like Travis Bickle, miming the execution of the U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as she testifies at hearings about the FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco. Tim also travels to an Arkansas prison...

“We have to do something,” says one of the many shadowy extremists who populate the fringes of Mike Ott’s tense drama McVeigh, a condensed account of the events that led Timothy McVeigh, an Iraq war veteran, to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people and injuring 680 more. His close ties to white supremacist Richard Snell, a convicted murderer put to death by lethal injection that same day, might — reasonably — lead one, and especially people of color, to wonder why this man needs the oxygen of publicity, nearly 23 years after his own execution. But Ott’s film is a rare study of the radicalization of white working-class Americans, a phenomenon that went overground in Washington DC on January 6, 2021.

Ott carefully keeps us at arm’s length from his subject at all times, and his direction makes that clear from the outset. When we’re not following McVeigh,...

The June skies are clear as the Tribeca Festival gathers indie filmmakers from around the globe with a large slate of features and shorts, music, games, TV, audio storytelling and a major addition this year in De Niro Con, a tribute to the prolific actor and Tribeca co-founder.

The fest moved from April to June in part for the weather but that can’t be taken for granted — last year’s edition opened to a city blanketed with acrid smoke from Canadian wildfires as Mayor Eric Adams handed De Niro the key to the city at a press conference and Tribeca unveiled De Niro Con. Fan events and screenings with star power from Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Billy Crystal, Ben Stiller, David O. Russell, Christopher Walken and others will unspool over the last four days of the festival.

Other retrospectives and reunions will see Steven Spielberg screen and discuss his...

Exclusive: Independent Artist Group on Tuesday announced its signing of actress Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars).

Benson is best known for starring on the hit Freeform series Pretty Little Liars, based on the novels by Sara Shepard, which aired for seven seasons from 2010 to 2017.

Created by I. Marlene King, the mystery drama follows the lives of four high school girls whose friendship falls apart after their clique leader, Alison, goes missing. A year later, they start receiving anonymous messages from a mysterious figure known as “A,” who threatens to expose their deepest secrets, including ones they thought only Alison knew. In the role of “It girl” Hannah Marin, Benson starred opposite Troian Bellisario, Holly Marie Combs, Lucy Hale and more.

Most recently, the actress starred alongside Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Colman in Prime Video’s thriller miniseries Wilderness. Her feature film credits include Mob Land with John Travolta, Kevin Dillon...