One of those rarest of rare breeds -- a movie that doesn't just ignore Hollywood conventions, but openly flouts them.
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In the Company of Men (1997)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:46
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.8/10
Synopsis: In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a... [More]
Reviews for In the Company of Men
LaBute directs this low-budget film with such spareness and precision, using such minimal yet effective backdrops, that in retrospect his color film almost seems to have been in black and white. Its ideas are that stark.
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Top CriticInteresting, original premise starts off with a slow burn, but eventually challenges you into watching the screen without a cringe.
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The strength of LaBute's conception every step of the way is in forcing the issue of where we belong in this picture -- with Chad, with Howard, or with Christine.
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There is absolutely nothing extraneous in LaBute's movie -- one of those lovely confluences of artistic vision and budgetary restrictions.
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This is a brilliant film, but I found it very hard to watch.
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Has been both exalted as a brilliant satire and scorned as a shallow burp of white male indigestion posing as satire. It's probably a little of both.
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The kind of bold, uncompromising film that insists on being thought about afterward -- talked about, argued about, hated if necessary, but not ignored.
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Top CriticThe three leads inhabit their roles in the way only unknown actors can. They really seem to become the characters they're playing.
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The best American film to appear this year.
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The acting is superlative, and the imaginative script has minimalist cadence à la David Mamet. The result is at once devastating and compelling.
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What is the point? We should all be nice to each other? Like we need a movie to tell us that, and badly.
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