The Beasts
Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: July 28, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
85
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Original-CinChris KnightAug 11, 2023
There is not much more you can ask of a film than that it provides you with another perspective, a new angle to look at old problems. The Beasts does that. Read full review
100
Screen DailyWendy IdeMar 30, 2023
The latest from Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen is a terrific psychological thriller and a brooding, muscular piece of filmmaking which makes the most of both the Galician backdrop and the imposing physicality of Menochet and, as his nemesis Xan, the remarkable Luis Zahera. Read full review
100
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMar 30, 2023
A terrific, gripping drama that will cross cultural borders with ease. Every nation has such stories. Read full review
95
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpJul 31, 2023
The sensation of observing these details fold into one another and unfold as a narrative isn’t that far off from turning the pages of a novel, or even a newspaper; that’s the journalistic effect of Sorogoyen’s filmmaking. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarAug 4, 2023
As with all great moral dilemmas, Sorogoyen makes it impossible to entirely side with either party without considering that each of them has been victimized by larger social ills. Read full review
90
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 31, 2023
The film’s big scene is upsetting and unforgettable, one of those movie moments you can’t unsee and which seems destined to haunt you for years to come. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerJul 28, 2023
From its very first minute, this searing drama of rural strife, xenophobia and cultural hostility is filled with almost unbearable tension. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 27, 2023
Sorogoyen tells this story of steady, tense escalation with great patience. Read full review
85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJul 28, 2023
A small-scale tragedy about arrogant intolerance and self-centeredness that’s at once highly specific and, more depressing still, universal. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithJul 28, 2023
In balancing the two sides’ competing motives, Mr. Sorogoyen has fashioned not only a taut drama but a parable that is widely applicable across many cultures at this moment. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 30, 2023
The Beasts is a strange film in many ways, difficult to pin down tonally or generically, but it leaves a trail of unease in the mind. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMar 30, 2023
Some of that tension dissipates in a more low-key third act that foregrounds the excellent Foïs and Colomb as a mother and daughter at loggerheads, but The Beasts is still a compelling, tragic study of human conflict in a scarily believable context. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJul 28, 2023
The Beasts may not be realistic, but it is genuinely eerie. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassJul 24, 2023
The film is as much about the beastliness of outmoded machismo as it is about the perseverance and fortitude of women in opposition to it. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaJul 27, 2023
The stately Foïs carries the film as it devolves into a restrained drama about familial loyalty and womanly fortitude, its change of gears not entirely clicking into place. Read full review
70
Little White LiesAnton BitelMar 30, 2023
Even as The Beasts flirts with genre, it also remains largely true to the real-life case from which it is drawn, so that the big three-cornered duel that would be the climax of a western comes here at the half-way point and allows the rest of the film to abandon masculine bluster and focus on a quieter female stoicism. Read full review
67
The Film StageLena WilsonJul 28, 2023
If you can forgive its facile villains, The Beasts’ well-shaken cocktail of realism and naturalism offers as many sublime scenes as it does provocative questions. Read full review
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