Men and Chicken is just as much of a horror as it is a comedy and a family drama. It’s the most disturbing yet hilarious movie I’ve seen for a long time.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2023

Jensen and his game cast (especially Mikkelsen, who's hard to recognize at points) make it work too, and turn Men & Chicken into a film that's just as strange as it is entertaining.

Full Review | May 25, 2019

Somewhat front-heavy, the twisted and demented Men and Chicken starts as a broad screwball comedy yet ends as a sobering and existential study of fraternity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2019

The effect of a carefully calculated balance is that Men & Chicken unfolds to become more complex than it at first appears.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2019

It's a warped comedy about genetics, a slapstick farce, an existential enquiry, and it's likely to be a cult movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2019

Sweet, funny, strange, and heartfelt, it is an outright great film that your friends will likely hate you for recommending.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2018

If you stick around for the ride, it's provocative, fantastical, and disturbingly funny.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2018

The comic-surreal atmosphere and rule-governed perversity are satisfying throughout, and Mikkelsen's clueless-asshole deadpan is a hoot.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2017

Slapstick, scatological, juvenile, and crass. I loved it.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2017

Sinister yet hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2017

A sci-fi-esque premise Kafka would be proud of... silly, slapstick, empathetic and amusing.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2016

Anders Thomas Jensen is one of Denmark's most fêted film-makers, the winner of two Oscars and a man with a knack for twisted comedies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2016

Men & Chicken is strange and often dark, but it's weirdly sweet, too, not to mention very funny. If you like The League Of Gentlemen then you're going to want to catch this.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2016

Like the mansion where most of the action unfolds, writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen's fourth feature brims with mutant creatures, bestial desires and warped family feelings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2016

A film that celebrates the joy of living and the strength of family ties, even if the family gene pool has been adulterated in the most spectacular way.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2016

A darkly comic dysfunctional family drama rather than the carnival of grotesquery it could have been.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2016

Men and Chicken, though funny, isn't really nasty. It celebrates its misbegotten brood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2016

The actors capture the boorishness and animalistic side of their characters, but also their vulnerability in the face of a world that makes such little sense to them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2016

Hilarious, charming, and slightly traumatic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2016

Hilarious in places, hideous in others, this struggles to make its philosophical case. But the performances are exceptional and the conceit could not be more daring or distinctive.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2016