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.
And while the movie has some really startling and horrifically beautiful scenes and effects that will unfortunately stay with me for a long time, I wonder if "Men" might have benefited from having more women co-writing or -directing — not just because women still don't get as many opportunities or the same pay in Hollywood, but because the movie might have had more to say about both genders.
Alex Garland, the directing man in question, has created some of the best sci-fi-horror of this century, writing "28 Days Later" (2002) and directing "Ex Machina" (2014), the latter a skin-tickling thriller about artificial intelligence that interrogated the way men objectify women. His last effort, 2018's one-of-a-kind "Annihilation," got good reviews but flopped at the box office.
