The Bikeriders starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer is full of grit, leather and hogs, but really it's a look at tragic masculinity

If there's one thing the movies could do with more of, it's Austin Butler astride a Harley Davidson in leather and cut-off denim, the thrum of the engine matched only by his low-slung Midwestern drawl. In The Bikeriders, Butler is motorcycle boy Benny Cross, a moody hothead running with a Chicago biker gang known as the Vandals, a fictionalised version of the real-life Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Framed by Lyons' interviews with Benny's wife, Kathy Cross, The Bikeriders is a saga that plays out across a decade, bearing witness to the changing codes and power dynamics of the biker world. Kathy recalls her introduction to the Chicago chapter of the Vandals, led by Johnny Davis, a family man inspired to form a motorcycle crew after seeing Marlon Brando's "whaddya got?" We watch as Kathy falls for Benny's brooding bad boy, and thrill as he takes her for their first spin to a soundtrack — pretty much required by movie law — of the Shangri-La's.