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May
Lions Gate Films Inc.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence/gore, some sexuality and language
Starring
Angela Bettis,
Jeremy Sisto,
Anna Faris,
James Duval,
Nichole Hiltz,
Kevin Gage,
Merle Kennedy,
and
Chandler Hecht
A hybrid of camp horror and psychological thriller.
| GENRE(S): |
Horror
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Lucky McKee
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Lucky McKee
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 15, 2003
Video: July 15, 2003
Theatrical: February 7, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie subtly darkens its tone until, when the horrifying ending arrives, we can see how we got there. There is a final shot that would get laughs in another kind of film, but May earns the right to it, and it works, and we understand it.

88
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
McKee, like Amenabar, knows how to position his film against type -- which ultimately makes May a refreshing, macabre tale.

80
Film Threat
Tim Merrill
Call it a horror movie, a psychological thriller or a feminist splatterfest, but this sort of story is tough to get right. May gets it more than right.

80
LA Weekly
Mark Olsen
The inventive and unpredictable May is exactly the kind of unexpected delight one hopes for every time the lights go down.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A stylized work of unflinching control and discipline, reflecting an artistic maturity unusual in a first film.

80
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
With a level of dark humor akin to the screenplays of Todd Solondz, and a visual style reminiscent of Dario Argento, May is one of the funniest, most disturbing, yet strangely touching movies of the year

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
May represents something rare and unfashionable-a smart, twisted little slasher comedy that doesn't skimp on the gore.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Though ultimately too waterlogged with student-film self-seriousness to revel fully in its low-rent joie de cleaver -- nevertheless taps into a furious atavistic energy that reflects well on the filmmaker and his fully committed cast.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Writer-director McKees arch comic dialogue (i.e., "Well hang out and eat some melons or something") is out of synch with the creepy horror he wields.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Satisfyingly, May also turns out to be lowdown genre fun, a film that nearly makes up in slacker wit and high-spirited gore what it lacks in budget and elegance.

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In visual terms, it's clear McKee has a talent for moviemaking...But he's going to need better stories than this.

50
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
On paper, it sounds like the start of a good film. Too bad McKee made such a lackluster thing of it. Though the horror comes from an interesting place, it's frequently forced, negating much of the humor and pathos the film attempts to instill.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Led by Ms. Bettis's discreetly campy May, the performances are a cut or two above what you would find in the average slasher film. But in the end that's all it is.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It wants to be a "Carrie" with a modern-day "Frankenstein" twist, but it lacks the smarts behind the weirdness.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
McKee's direction of actors is as clumsy as the stabs at rapid editing.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The talented Bettis works her heart out, but McKee apparently directed her to play May as a quivering crazy from the start.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Novice director Lucky McKee wrote the first draft of this labored horror flick while he was in school, and for a student film, it's not bad. But it's not ready for the big time.

20
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
The flavor is textbook '90s indie -- self-regarding quirk with an occasional spasm of Solondzian incorrectness.


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