Anders Thomas Jensen is one of Denmark's most fêted film-makers, the winner of two Oscars and a man with a knack for twisted comedies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2016

Like the mansion where most of the action unfolds, writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen's fourth feature brims with mutant creatures, bestial desires and warped family feelings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2016

A darkly comic dysfunctional family drama rather than the carnival of grotesquery it could have been.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2016

The actors capture the boorishness and animalistic side of their characters, but also their vulnerability in the face of a world that makes such little sense to them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2016

Hilarious, charming, and slightly traumatic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2016

Hilarious in places, hideous in others, this struggles to make its philosophical case. But the performances are exceptional and the conceit could not be more daring or distinctive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2016

A gamey, tangy and strange gothic horror comedy carried off in a deadpan macabre style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2016

It's a scary, discomfiting, clever film, hard to rid from your head once you've seen it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2016

There's warmth and heart beneath the grotesque exterior.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2016

It's a twisted existential grotesque that wrings thought-provoking pathos and even affection for the lunatics running the menagerie, no mean feat.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2016

Occasionally rib tickling but more often gut churning, this turns largely on the spectacle of Mikkelsen, a respected dramatic actor and a Bond villain no less, being cast as a furiously dyspeptic nerd who keeps running off somewhere to masturbate.

| May 19, 2016

While this isn't the best movie you'll ever see, for the curious it's worth exploring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2016

You can't accuse "Men & Chicken" of false advertising: There are men and there are chickens.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2016

Jensen positions "Men & Chicken" as a fablelike ode to humanism and tolerance, but his obsession with brutish sexuality and mean, slapstick humor makes that claim feel unearned and glib.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2016

Demands you get on its distinctive wavelength, but offers plenty of offbeat pleasures once you do.

| May 4, 2016

If you are looking for something completely different, something strange, smart, and vulgar, Jensen's film more than qualifies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 28, 2016

What does all of this add up to? Damned if I know. But it's fun to see a film that plays by its own rules to such a degree that any comparison to anything else falls apart.

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

For a time the movie feels like a cross between "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and a vintage Three Stooges short. And then there are the mutated chickens.

| Apr 21, 2016

This seriously warped family portrait - an inspired thematic hybrid of Kafkaesque alienation and Farrelly brothers farce, with a healthy grafting of Tod Browning's "Freaks" - still has an organic sweetness at its core.

| Apr 21, 2016

Mikkelsen, blessed with the rare ability to class up a joint while also being the most menacing guy in the room, is cast against type as a mustachioed philanderer; based on the evidence, his estimable talents are better suited to Hannibal.

| Apr 21, 2016