Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: holds up a funhouse mirror to a culture that spits on kindness and worships the alpha male.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer/director Riley Stearns’s pitch black comedy is like a feminist take on “Fight Club” had “Fight Club” been addressing toxic masculinity…Jesse Eisenberg’s best role since “The Social Network…”
- [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This comedy is a punch to the gut. It can be a shock but it’s also extremely effective.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: The Art of Self-Defense is wickedly funny and undeniably relevant.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: A caricature of toxic masculinity that watches like a navelgazing, mumblecore Fight Club, Self-Defense uses zero subtlety as aesthetic affectation.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: [Stearns] isn’t trying to prop one form of masculinity above another. He’s dismantling the concept altogether.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: The Art of Self-Defense may not be striving to detail some solution to the way toxicity can override goodwill, but it’s disturbingly funny in a good way.
- Frank Ochieng @ Flick Feast
- Excerpt: Profoundly witty and oddly reflective, The Art of Self-Defense is one of the year’s best uniquely dark comedies to give a karate chop to the inactive funnybone.
- Scott Phillips @ The Movie Isle
- Excerpt: In a cinematic season that’s typically filled with mindless spectacle, Riley Stearns strikes a blow for summer movies with a brain.
- Ron WIlkinson @ its just movies
- Excerpt: Finding the inner warrior might be more trouble than it is worth.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
