Reaching out from the 2010s to slash through our current social moment with a hand-wielded lawnmower blade, Lucky McKee’s The Woman is a difficult masterpiece that’s worth a second look.

| Jul 3, 2024

A violent, disturbing skewering of the heteropatriarchy and the subjugation of women defining the inherent misogyny of intergenerational subjugation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2020

An interesting statement on misogyny, albeit subtle as a sledgehammer-but then, this is from Lucky McKee and Jack Ketchum.

| Feb 28, 2019

Starts off with a whimper and ends with a bang, as all good horror films should.

| Nov 6, 2017

A confident, rough, and confrontational horror film.

| Aug 23, 2015

...The Woman suffers from a pervasively low-rent feel that remains a distraction from start to finish...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2014

There are really no artistic merits to be found here. The film glorifies violence and is overly offensive in every way possible.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 11, 2013

I wish this movie were as offensive as it wants to be: that revulsion would have given me something to do during this movie other than watch it.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 23, 2013

McKee, never one to shy away from controversy, juggles some impressive themes, including civility, raw emotion and the true nature of crime.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2012

It's an unflinching and ballsy film which serves as a great reminder that there's still powerful storytelling alive in the horror genre

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2012

Calculatedly ugly and undeservedly controversial.

| Jan 4, 2012

Not only is it banal in a kitchen sink way, it's just a reiteration of the same argument.

| Dec 8, 2011

Subtle as a mugging and gleefully outrageous, "The Woman'' is a feminist parable disguised as a sicko midnight horror movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 27, 2011

[G]naws at our notions of what's proper and what's improper, dredging up unexpected horrors from the most banal of ordinariness...

| Oct 31, 2011

The Woman suggests that perhaps May was merely a fluke. A bafflingly angry, ugly demonstration of dehumanization, the feature is a glacial, low-rent addition to the suffering subgenre.

| Original Score: D | Oct 30, 2011

Rewards your endurance with an utterly insane 30-minute climax of violence, audacious gore and all-around bad behavior.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2011

Feral woman meets a lawyer/monster.

| Oct 24, 2011

... despite its reputation as a gratuitous shockfest, (it's) tense, well-paced, and does have some social commentary to make. By way of screaming, of course.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 24, 2011

The characters and the audience alike will have to endure much misery and a ham-fisted illustration of gender dynamics, offered up as an especially cockeyed comedy of manners...

| Oct 21, 2011

Suspenseful, disturbing and creepy. Pollyanna McIntosh gives a raw, brave performance.

| Oct 20, 2011