It’s a bleak and unforgiving vision but no one would argue that this is a nuanced account of gender differences. It’s a horror film, and its real pleasures lie in its old-fashioned shock tactics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2025

...the performances from Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear are incredible. If this was meant to be an experimental acting showcase for the two, this was a job well done.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2024

Men is unlikely to find any kind of broad audience, but for those who do see it there is a chance the film will never quite leave them.

| Jul 17, 2024

It is another example of expressionist horror, which depicts real life fears such as racism in “Master” (2022) and aging in “Relic” (2020) as if they are supernatural so viewers can become submerged in the protagonist’s subjective horror

| Jun 9, 2024

Men is a rape/revenge film which spends most of its run time trying to distance itself from rape/revenge films.

| Apr 9, 2024

immersive, disturbing, eerie, & incredibly off putting film that will disturb you all the way up till it’s jaw dropping finale. It’s vividly layered from its writing to its direction. I’m shocked

| Jul 25, 2023

It is, very decidedly, a mixed bag, with genius rubbing shoulders with stupidity; profundity with banality; subtlety with obviousness; emotional rawness with silliness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Men may have some issues, but it’s never a slog; it does have some missteps while reaching its outrageous grand finale. But, for me, it’s a step up from Annihilation.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2023

Men is an elementary look at what it’s like to live as a woman in the 21st century. It’s an underwhelming, simplistic take on the very real violence that women face, packaged in a nonsensical, edgy indie format.

| Jul 25, 2023

All these strange reverberations and reflections among the characters portrayed by Kinnear are mirrored by a fantastic sequence in which Harper explores the woods near the rental property.

| May 9, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 24, 2023

Men has a profoundly affecting ending, one that transcends traditional narrative in favor of delivering an unbelievable emotionally-rooted thematic catharsis that Garland and his collaborators meticulously crescendo to throughout the film.

| Jan 9, 2023

There are no easy answers here. This is a film that is designed to provoke a strong, visceral reaction. Audiences will undoubtably have opinions. Good and bad. Some will find a lot to admire. Some will loathe it, particularly men. Well, not all men.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2022

A better film wouldn’t boil down to “The patriarchy, am I right?”

| Nov 1, 2022

Men wears its allegories literally and upfront, with nary any plot to swallow the pill with.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 8, 2022

The manner in which he lays everything out robs it of its full resonance. This makes Men his most flawed directorial effort, though even a lesser Garland film is still something to behold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2022

Garland is too good a filmmaker to have done anything terrible with "Men," but at the same time, I can't help but feel that the end result should have been better. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Men represents Alex Garland’s return to horror and A24, serving up a social thriller that studies the malice of men, ably anchored by Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

More like, Meh.

| Original Score: C | Sep 1, 2022

Like its protagonist, the story takes impossible paths from which it rarely returns, leaving the spectator at the mercy of this lavish and daring premise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 19, 2022