Chevalier runs slightly out of steam, a victim of high concept over narrative ingenuity, but it is a relentless satire on male vanity and the grim hollowness of machismo.

| Jul 18, 2022

Like a black comedy feminist Deliverance, Athina Rachel Tsangari finds lying within the cracks of masculine performativity an inherent struggle with the omnipresent 'threat' of the feminine.

| Aug 25, 2018

Anybody who doubts that the film's trivial pursuits belie a cutting, Buuelian subtext should watch the final exterior shots carefully.

| Sep 28, 2017

It has a good deal to say about men from the perspective of a woman and it's never less than intriguing as these rather foolish characters challenge one another.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 27, 2017

Chevalier is Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! squished through a European arthouse grinder with deeply pleasing results.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2016

Cinematographer Christos Karamanis boxes in the madness with disciplined framing. It is, perhaps entirely the point, that the film's shenanigans leave one yearning for the same sense of order to be imposed elsewhere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2016

Tsangari's deadpan approach to the increasingly sociopathic behaviour of the sextet is perfectly judged.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2016

Tsangari is laying bare the conceit and machismo of her male protagonists.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2016

The performances are focused and controlled, but, like the yacht itself, the film is going nowhere, dramatically and conceptually.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2016

Chevalier emerges as that fascinating and seemingly paradoxical thing: a feminist film in which women are virtually absent from the screen.

| Jul 21, 2016

It's fun but testing. Intentionally infuriating, perhaps.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2016

Men! We're awful, aren't we?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2016

Maybe the film is just a parable about modern-day men behaving badly. Or perhaps it's even an allegory about the state of modern-day Greece. One thing's for certain, however: [Director] Athina Rachel Tsangari wants viewers to fill in the blanks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2016

The film is impeccably shot - and composer Marilena Orfanou's electronic score vividly suggests a ticking testosterone time bomb. On your mark. Get set. Go see it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2016

Tsangari gives us an entertaining catalog of the ways males in packs jockey for position, mainly a comic spectacle, but not without moments of menace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2016

Consider it the Decathlon of Dude Bros

| Original Score: B | Jun 3, 2016

Scene by scene, it builds a vision of group dynamics as calm, violent and finally unyielding as the sea.

| Jun 2, 2016

The most droll of male-bonding comedies, as viewed through the astringent lens of Greece's Athina Rachel Tsangari.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2016

The story congeals in the rigid and narrow script, and Tsangari films it with a generic impersonality.

| May 30, 2016

Tsangari never lays on too heavy a hand. One is free to contemplate the allegorical and satirical implications, but also free to enjoy the spectacle of self-imposed insecurity that plays out among these characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2016