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Men review – Alex Garland’s rural retreat into toxic masculinity

Rory Kinnear in many guises plagues Jessie Buckley’s abuse survivor in this twisted country-house horror

The Guardian - UK

Men review: Alex Garland’s pseudo-feminist horror offers little beyond metaphors

The filmmaker’s follow-up to ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Annihilation’ at times feels like provocation for provocation’s sake

The Independent UK

Men movie review: Jessie Buckley shines in this muddled take on misogyny and madness

The actress and her chameleonic co-star Rory Kinnear are great but the film isn’t quite sure where it’s going

Evening Standard

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Vera Drake to Ex Machina: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Imelda Staunton is outstanding in Mike Leigh’s incredibly timely drama, while Alicia Vikander is the perfect AI creation in Alex Garland’s directorial debut. Plus, Keanu Reeves is back with more Matrix

The Guardian - UK

Rory Kinnear on humour, horror and trauma: ‘I went in the truck and there was my skull again, sent to haunt me’

The actor has found a niche playing multiple characters in one scene, never more so than playing five in his new film Men. He talks about grief making him old before his time – and why niceness is back

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2022: Irish actress Jessie Buckley talks 'Men’

Our guest was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Lost Daughter" and has become one of Hollywood’s most talked-about rising talents. Irish actress Jessie Buckley is here in Cannes with a social horror movie that studies the malice of men. Buckley speaks to Eve Jackson…

France 24

Let's talk about that 'Men' ending with the people who created it

If you just finished watching Alex Garland's new folk-horror film "Men," you might need a little time to process it. At least that's what Garland hopes.

Los Angeles Times

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Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men"

The filmmaker spoke to Salon about that WTF ending sequence and how the film hinges on miscommunication

Salon

"Men" is a creepy, gendered fever dream

Jessie Buckley is a woman who can't evade all the men who share Rory Kinnear's face in Alex Garland's horror

Salon

'Men' ending explained: How 'Attack on Titan' inspired Alex Garland's new movie

What does 'Attack on Titan' have to do with 'Men' and its bizarre ending? Let’s dig in.

Inverse

In 1952, scientists united to study Earth — we’re still living with the consequences

In this edition of Inverse Daily, read about the International Geophysical Year, see the latest science images, and learn about Sheelah-Na-Gig and the Green Man symbolism.

Inverse

Alex Garland's Provocative Men Asks: Are Men OK?

A surrealist nightmare of gender terror from one of Hollywood’s most distinctive directors.

Reason

‘Men’ review: Jessie Buckley ventures into a sinister Garden of Eden in a highly unusual psychological thriller

The last time a major filmmaker ventured into a nightmarish Garden of Eden amid a swirl of Christian and pagan warnings of the evil that men do, the filmmaker was Darren Aronofsky, the film was “Mother!” and the CinemaScore exit polls of moviegoers out for a good time awarded it…

Chicago Tribune

'Men' review: Woman's quiet getaway is ruined by, what else, men

Jessie Buckley is put through the wringer in writer-director Alex Garland's art-horror provocation "Men," and not since Jennifer Lawrence endured "Mother!" has an actress been pushed further in service of a filmmaker's vision.

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Inverse

'Men' explained: The movie's stars unpack its mysterious ancient symbolism

Alex Garland's 'Men' is full of references to Sheela-na-gig and Green Man. Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear explain what it all means.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Men’: There’s more than one message in horror film’s disturbing, inventive imagery

Jessie Buckley stars as a traumatized widow feeling menaced by a series of guys all played (brilliantly) by Rory Kinnear.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Men' a truly horrifying if muddled film from Alex Garland

“Visionary” is liberally used to describe directors these days, but if any filmmaker has earned the title, it’s writer/director Alex Garland, whose work has pushed forward some of the major trends in horror and sci-fi filmmaking over the past two decades. He penned the screenplays for “28 Days Later” and…

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'Men' review: 'Folk horror' movie has a lot to show, but not much to say

Full disclaimer: "Men" is a movie written and directed by a man, with editing and cinematography by men, and this is a review written by a man, but the movie is actually about a woman — and about women's relationships to men.

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The Independent UK

Alex Garland confronts the horrors of past, present in ‘Men’

Alex Garland's new film “Men” grapples with toxic masculinity and all its forms throughout history within a folk horror construct

Inverse

15 years ago, '28 Weeks Later' improved on Danny Boyle's zombie cult classic

This bombastic sequel is less popular than its predecessor, but it deserves re-evaluation on its own merits.

The Guardian - UK

Men review – Alex Garland unleashes multiple Rory Kinnears in wacky folk-horror

Garland’s latest is like a scary-movie remake of Dick Emery, with excellent performances from Kinnear in a number of different roles, and Jessie Buckley

Asharq Al-Awsat

Movies Love a Comeback Story. This Summer, it’s Their Turn.

This summer at the movies, Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit behind those iconic aviators. Doctors Grant, Sattler and Ian Malcolm are returning for another round with the dinosaurs. Natalie Portman is picking up Thor’s hammer. And Jordan Peele is poised to terrify us with the unknown. Again. Hollywood…

The Independent UK

Movies love a comeback story. This summer, it's their turn.

Hollywood is bringing out some of its biggest and most reliable players for the 2022 summer movie season, which unofficially kicks off this weekend with the help of Marvel and Disney’s “Doctor Strange and the Multitverse of Madness” and runs through the end of August

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: RBA’s shock interest rate rise, Roe v Wade leak authentic, Apra award winners

Wednesday: Federal election campaign brings unease in coal-rich NSW seat of Hunter. Plus: One Nation scrambles for candidates

The Guardian - AU

Ex Machina: when you see this sci-fi thriller, you’ll never stop thinking about it

Ahead of Alex Garland’s new film, Men, revisit his directorial debut. It asks the biggest question of all: what does it mean to be alive?

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