Female Film Critics 24/375
There’s a whole damn new cinematic subgenre that’s been developing in the past decade or so, and it’s an ugly one: The Misogynist “Critique” Of Misogyny. Writer-director Alex Garland was an early perpetrator with his lady-sexbot drama Ex Machina, and now he makes a stunning return to form with his enraging yet monotonous Men.
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I wish I could state unequivocally that this is a film perfect for this moment in time, and perhaps it is. But not in a good way. It may be that director Alex Garland has, well, a thing about women. Consider his screenplay for 28 Days Later (directed by Danny Boyle), a clever twist on the zombie genre that posits a pandemic of rage that infects the blood, set loose on the world by a female animal rights activist. Even the title hints at the undertones of menstrual madness.
Read moreFollowing “Ex Machina,” writer/director Alex Garland has concocted an ominous sci-fi thriller drenched with a pervasive sense of foreboding and
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