Director Ethan Berger works with a convincing ensemble cast of knuckleheads, offering immersive insight into the bizarre behaviour and toxic bravado of these moneyed young titans-to-be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2025

With Berger’s grainy cinematography, grim lighting and low-angle shots on Mitch’s scowling face, The Line is a horror show you can’t look away from.

| Mar 31, 2025

Ethan Berger’s The Line is a fascinating and dark look at a fictional fraternity that offers fantastic performances from its ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 24, 2024

The Line is pretty good for what it is, and the outstandingly committed cast helps, but for all of its positives and sense of lived in realness, Berger’s impact is fleeting.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 21, 2024

A stirring debut feature that takes viewers into the toxic world of fraternity culture, Berger forces the audience to ponder why these fractured institutional pillars still remain standing today.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 20, 2024

This sort of thing has been done before. But despite its melodramatic elements, The Line feels like a more credibly drawn depiction/indictment than most of a system that perpetuates so much our society’s entrenched inequities.

| Nov 4, 2024

It boasts two excellent lead performances, but its focus on class difference and social striving seems contrived and poorly worked out.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 31, 2024

A solid cast helps create more intriguing interaction amid a sea of rampant macho postering. But there's very little emotional resonance to be found anywhere on-screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 29, 2024

The Line is a nasty little human horror nightmare told in a vividly naturalistic style that allows the intensity of the brothers’ actions sink in.

| Oct 29, 2024

As a hazing cautionary tale, “The Line” effectively tells the story without glamorizing the lifestyle.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 25, 2024

A propulsively brutal cautionary tale...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2024

The Line could have developed some elements further to enrich the overall film, but as it stands this is a powerful debut from Ethan Berger that will be hard for some people to watch but should be requisite viewing for future college students.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 24, 2024

The Line leverages its familiar narrative to tell an often difficult and upsetting story about the dangers of toxic masculinity and so-called fraternity.The messaging is subtle as a sledgehammer…and that’s the point.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2024

Hauntingly memorable and with an impressive cast of Gen Z actors, you could consider this Animal House: The Drama.

| Oct 23, 2024

Ethan Berger’s "The Line" may not break new ground in addressing the toxic masculinity prevalent in fraternity settings, but it offers a gripping thriller that probes the darker realities of unchecked behavior.

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2024

Intelligent slow-burn college frat drama.

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2024

With a terrific leading performance and a pitch-perfect showcase of the underworld of fraternity hazing, The Line stands out as a thriller to watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 19, 2024

... fails to provide fresh insight or perspective regarding toxic masculinity in college fraternities.

| Oct 18, 2024

The Line is hard to watch, and the banality of this kind of evil is incredibly off-putting. Horrible things happen while people are laughing. Even while The Line extends its welcome, it’s an undeniably unnerving experience.

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2024

For all its comparative lack of insight, there’s something intriguing about the ride, due chiefly to a pair of fascinating lead performances and a fatalistic sense of humor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2024