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- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: masterfully constructed, every layer of the production, from Mark Digby’s production design to Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow’s chorale score, contributing to the atmosphere of ancient unease.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: An interesting idea that devolves into a disappointment.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A “critique” of misogyny that is outright misogynist, even before it goes down a gorefest rabbit hole of infuriating contempt for women. What the hell is going on with this would-be-mythic mishmash?
- Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
- Excerpt: There is much to like about Men—the new folk horror film from writer-director Alex Garland, not necessarily the gender. Unfortunately, what starts as a very strong and legitimately scary exploration of these heady issues unravels in the final third, culminating in a bizarre finale full of grotesque body horror that fails to fully satisfy.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Is it provocative? Sure. It’s also a misguided case of both-sides-ism that seeks to find complexity in what has been proven time and time again to be a binary truth.
- [New] | C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Men is an elaborate, surreal exploration of misogyny across the past two millennia via a microcosm of one woman’s struggle in the aftermath of a tragedy that’s scapegoated her as its cause.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: The latest from A24 relies on thematic and academic allusions to unspool a gender-horror film that’s meager on plot and dense on WTF moments. Rory Kinnear is memorable as a grinning Cheshire Cat of a caretaker but the film is a decidedly surrealistic jumble; abstract and nihilistic to the point of no return.
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Men’ is more interesting as a psychological horror study grounded in a specific scenario than as a manifesto on gender relations.
- Josh Thayer (formerly Taylor) @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Men is an intense fever dream of a movie. Using the subgenre of folk horror, it’s an exploration of every disturbing behavior that men perpetrate against women. Gaslighting. Intimidation. Possessiveness. The threat of violence. Actual violence.
