If you are college-bound, go and see Goat first, but for God's sake don't take your parents.

| Sep 23, 2016

Goat is a suitably horrific expos of campus hazing, but it's wise about the difficulties of ending it, even when victims and perpetrators both want it to stop.

| Sep 23, 2016

A shocking descent into debauchery that's as gripping as it is disgusting, [with] Neel delivering a searing portrait of abuse I'm not sure I could have torn my eyes away from had I wanted to try.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2016

Any discussion of toxic masculinity, or the ways in which brotherhood in all its forms can get twisted, is likely to be muted by second-guessing of the movie's methods.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2016

Though the movie aims for the gravity and psychological horror of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the film is essentially the dark flip side of a Seth Rogen comedy ...

| Original Score: B | Sep 23, 2016

A fact-based fratboy movie it might be helpful to think of as Animal House minus the laughs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2016

The performances are conscientious and earnest; Mr. Jonas has not much to do but come off as callow, with a streak of kindness, and he does so.

| Sep 22, 2016

With the masterful final shot, Neel wisely leaves the character in a fragile place, uncertain of his next steps.

| Original Score: B | Sep 22, 2016

Goat wouldn't be as strong as it is without the strength of Schnetzer's lead performance, which provides the emotional anchor around which the rest of the film orbits.

| Sep 22, 2016

This one's a tough sit. I had to look away at times; at the film's midpoint, the hazing rituals of hell week begin in earnest, and Neel doesn't elide much. There's a numbing aspect to "Goat." But the best of it, I'd say, is honorably harsh ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2016

This isn't an easy film to watch. But it's even harder to forget.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2016

A narrowly focused but unsettling indictment of campus culture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2016

The film is another near-miss talking point in an endless deluge of reminders that this system creates a breeding ground for toxic masculinity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2016

It might have set out to convey the disturbingly sadistic nature of institutional brotherhood, but it's the familial variety with which "Goat" explores something ultimately more compelling.

| Sep 22, 2016

Points are made and lessons imparted with all the subtlety and finesse of a Greek paddle to the head.

| Sep 22, 2016

Neel relates the story with an oblique, jump-cut chronology that heightens the sense of alienation and anxiety.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2016

A forceful indictment of the curdled masculinity that fuels some of the more extreme frat house behaviors that have made the news.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2016

What cinema goer would ever want to sit through 102 minutes of gratuitous violence, both physical and verbal, misogyny and testosterone, often under the influence of alcohol and drugs?

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 22, 2016

As a vision of toxic masculinity and the insecurities that inform it, Goat is shrewdly perceptive.

| Original Score: B | Sep 22, 2016

Few films take a look at the American male college tradition through such a dark, dramatic lens as "Goat."

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 21, 2016