While Men is flawed and ultimately a little unsatisfying, there’s no denying that it is a singular, bold and stimulating film that challenges you in every way – that’s what Alex Garland does best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2022

Garland is an assured storyteller... That track record makes it possible to believe for much of Men that he knows what he’s doing -- even if thematically the film feels like an over-familiar mash-up of a couple of current trends.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2022

The good news is that this film, written and directed by English novelist and filmmaker Alex Garland, is something utterly weird and completely different.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 11, 2022

Spare yourself the trouble and tell the film-makers you’re busy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2022

There’s some resemblance to Get Out in that there’s a social message wrapped in the narrative. I don’t think this movie (achieves) that quite as well as that movie, but it’s unsettling and well-acted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2022

A playfully twisted affair – not quite as profound as it seems to think, perhaps, but boasting enough squishy metaphorical slime to ensure that its musings upon textbook male characteristics are rarely dull, and sometimes deliciously disgusting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2022

It suggests that all a male filmmaker needs to do to earn his feminist credentials is to show us men doing bad things. Think Bugs Bunny chomping on his carrot and, with a wink to the audience, declaring, “ain’t I a stinker?”

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2022

It culminates in a protracted, effects-filled birthing sequence that manages, after 90 minutes of man-hating, to be aggressively misogynistic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2022

I would say that Alex Garland doesn't have a ton to say about misogyny.... But none of that takes away from Jessie Buckley's performance.

| Jun 1, 2022

The film’s weakness lies not in this depiction of misogyny as ubiquitous but in its failure to build thematically on the conceit.

| Jun 1, 2022

A lex Garland’s latest project wants to be a social thriller for the ages; a Get Out, for women. It almost succeeds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2022

There’s a sharper satire lurking in the story’s DNA—that of an ambitious, well-meaning filmmaker who’s so determined to make a conversation piece that he ends up saying nothing much at all.

| May 27, 2022

"...frustratingly stuck between needing a PhD in theology and pagan rituals [to appreciate], or it all seeming slight and obvious."

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 27, 2022

With the male need to control women hitting a new flashpoint, Alex Garland’s urgent provocation stars the great Jessie Buckley as a widow threatened on all sides by toxic masculinity. Though Garland is stingy with answers,his implications are incendiary.

| May 27, 2022

I’ve enjoyed swirling its strange conclusion around in my head and reveling in Garland’s daring inversion.

| May 25, 2022

If there’s no groundbreaking feminist commentary to this movie, there’s a certain value to sitting a viewer down and saying, “Look at yourself, man."

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

If you’re not willing to engage with the complexities found behind whatever door you decide to kick open in your quest to make your point, you’re more likely to end up with a bumper sticker than a story.

| Original Score: C+ | May 21, 2022

Too much is spent reiterating certain gore-ish thrills and slick political points that really don’t benefit from the added scrutiny encouraged by repetition; even the grand, ecstatic, pathetic feat of the movie’s climax fizzles rather than simmers.

| May 21, 2022

"Men" is often unsettling but not necessarily in the expected ways, which is mostly to the film's credit.

| May 20, 2022

Perhaps without intending to, Garland has hit on an all too timely truth: that men seek to control women as a response to their own self-loathing.

| May 20, 2022