May
User Score
7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 2 out of 13

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  1. Jacobparker
    May 15, 2013
    9
    You want to see not the typical slasher!?
    You want to see a film that makes you think!?
    here you got one!
    One of the best slasher movies ever made!
    Believe me!
  2. Kat
    Jun 4, 2005
    10
    Its Really cool!
  3. Billy
    Dec 12, 2004
    0
    This movie is garbage. If you want to see a disgusting movie, watch this. If you want to see a good movie, look elsewhere. Not scary, just disgusting. Watch this if you like watching parts of people's bodies get cut off.
  4. ChadS.
    Aug 12, 2004
    8
    If SNL's Amy Poehler and Christina Ricci had a baby, it would look something like May (Angela Bettis), a sad, but creepy loner, who doesn't know that she's a natural born-Goth. Adam(Jeremy Sisto) is the boy May loves; a Trent Reznor wanna-be, because if he really was Trent Reznor, the two would be a match made in heaven. "May" is an original, a slasher film informed by John Hughes (there's a scene lifted from "Sixteen Candles"), Courtney Love poetry, and indepenent film mannerisms. Since the adult May is crazy from the get-go, while admirably economical, writer/director Lucky McKee might've been too brief in explaining May's disconnection from reality. But making a slasher film that's respectable, and actually moving, is a tall order. When May goes on a rampage, it's bloody without being gratuitous, because the blood is an inevitability that's not mere spectacle. If Jason kills, there's no motivation, no catharsis after the end result. What's even more impressive, May's spree is simultaneously, blackly humorous and tragic. "May" is pretty amazing, and something of an anomaly; it's too B-movieish for the Sundance crowd, and too literate for "Cabin Fever" patrons. As May, Angela Bettis is the owner of a black heart, but black is beautiful. … Expand
  5. BenW.
    Aug 28, 2003
    9
    this movie is nothing short of amazing, it's too underrated and it should go down as a horror classic.
  6. ShawnD.
    Aug 18, 2003
    10
    Absolutely perfect! Just the right amounts of eerie creepiness, lighthearted fun and truly delightfulness... and meshed so tightly with amazing amounts of gore and horror. You just can't beat this movie! And to think.. I used to date someone who reminds me a LOT of this chick! *shudder*
  7. JohnY.
    Jul 23, 2003
    4
    An alright movie until the last 30 minutes, which descend into the absurd.

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Metascore
58 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    80
    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
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  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    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.
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  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    67
    Writer-director McKee’s arch comic dialogue (i.e., "We’ll hang out and eat some melons or something") is out of synch with the creepy horror he wields.
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