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100What is remarkable is how realistic the story is.
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100In the Company of Men is anything but entertaining. It's virtually impossible to sit through this film without suffering bouts of intense discomfort, and therein lies its power.
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100As disturbing as it is well-made, this low-budget indie is a thoroughly original piece of work.
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100Stunning, unsettling, beautifully written drama.
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100Writer/director Neil LaBute has taken the gender-issues film into uncharted, almost inhuman territory with this malevolently perfect exploration of male cruelty.
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90One of the best films of the year, a polished, contained piece of provocation.
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90This is a fully realized movie, whose intelligence -- despite its grim findings -- dwarfs any Hollywood production.
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90An unusually fine screenplay, then, yet LaBute's accomplishment goes further. He has envisioned a cinematic style for his film that harmonizes exactly with its theme and mood. [Sept 1, 1997]
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90It's virtually guaranteed to make us squirm.
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88In the end, like any satire worth the name, In the Company of Men spins around to fire its biggest salvo at its ultimate target -- the audience.
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80A provocative, timely script full of gasp-inducing lines and scenes.
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80As a writer, LaBute is capable of creating long dialogue scenes that never seem stagey or artificial. As a director, he has the confidence to stay with those words.
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80A brutal black comedy. It asks real questions and takes real chances.
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80A dazzling, repellent exercise in which the case against men is closed before it's opened.
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80Cool, shiny, handsomely made and, in its compelling-repelling way, mordantly funny.
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80Pics greatest achievement is its sharply poignant dialogue which, despite the horrible consequences of the contest it describes, is also darkly amusing.
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75The movie sticks with you, thanks to LaBute's observational powers and the three impressive lead performances. [15 August 1997, Friday, p.C]
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Tersely written and compellingly acted. But its controversial subject matter may make a lot of viewers so angry that the film's strong points will be disregarded.
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75A provocative dissection of human dynamics.
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70It exaggerates real, recognizable attitudes in a manner that intends to be disturbing.
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60This is a film worth seeing, and LaBute is a filmmaker well worth watching.
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60A singularly unpleasant movie.
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60A one-trick pony, a movie that has a gift only for making audiences squirm.
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It's Mamet without the rich slanginess and heat of which he's capable at his best.
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50An independent film so enamored of itself it refuses to have any fun.