She visits the town’s church ... constructed. Garland informs Harper’s character only through things that she has endured — sexist aggressions, abuse by her husband — and expects her to be sympathetic ...

Men, Alex Garland’s latest cinematic happening ... I always think that filmmaking is a very broad church and I know a lot of movies are incredibly keen to be referential and knowing to other ...

In Men, the new surrealist horror film from Alex Garland, red flags are everywhere ... or the angry boy wearing a doll's mask in a church graveyard who calls her a bitch. In one scene Harper ...

If you stare long enough at Alex Garland’s filmography ... unrecognizable versions of ourselves? One of Garland’s more divisive films, Men sees Jessie Buckley play a woman named Harper ...

He also wrote and directed the science-fiction horror Annihilation, the folk horror movie Men, and the two acclaimed war moviesWarfare and Civil War. However, Garland had directing experience ...

Men may be the Midsommar of Alex Garland movies, and not necessarily in a good way. The narrative is more than a little muddled while following a widower, Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley), as she ...

Before he had directed a single movie, Alex ... Garland has unexpectedly reinvented himself as a chronicler of actual war. Following the more allegorical (and even more stripped-down) Men, sort ...