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Monsters and Men

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Tensions rise when a young man records a police officer shooting a black motorist in a Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood.
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Well-acted and visually stylish, Monsters and Men tells its timely story with enough compassion and complexity to make up for occasionally uneven execution.

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Mark Kermode Kermode & Mayo's Film Review 01/29/2019
Seems to be quite deliberately attempting not to enflame but inform. Go to Full Review
Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 01/22/2019
3/5
It's smoothly done, by the writer-director Reinaldo Marcus Green, with few histrionics and delicate jumps between three separate stories. Go to Full Review
Philip De Semlyen Time Out 01/21/2019
4/5
John David Washington's role is more muted than in 'BlacKkKlansman', but he shows tantalising glimpses of dad Denzel's effortless charisma. Go to Full Review
Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine 01/06/2023
This movie isn’t made for me, is it? Monsters and Men provides mimetic affirmation that these are dark times, and you’re not alone in constantly clocking them. Go to Full Review
Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/24/2022
4/5
Despite losing steam in its third act, “Monsters and Men” maintains a steady sense of intimacy and relevance. Its stories feel personal and offer unique points of view on a smoldering current issue. Go to Full Review
Taylor Baker Drink in the Movies 09/09/2021
56/100
Episode 28: Piercing / Monsters and Men / Thunder Road / Destroyer Go to Full Review
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KB B 12/08/2023 It's an entertaining film with lots of drama and a good storyline. It's sad what people of color must endure. It's worth the watch. See more Christopher R 11/16/2023 Subtle and real. Sensational without the sensationalism. See more 03/30/2022 What works about this movie is that it's stylized in a way where you are there with the characters - in the locker room, at the police station, in front of the liquor store. In this way it's very intimate. When a character overhears someone talking about the shooting in this film you feel like it's you are part of that private conversation. What could also be a beat you over the head think piece is nuanced and invites you into the conversation. The only down side is that it plays like three films instead of one interconnected one. Well done and very appropriate for our time. See more 06/16/2020 Monsters And Men after needing to watch a second time which I did, is a film that proves effective, and more it seems after second viewing, but I don't think it's as effective as other films about the issue of police brutality. There is one intense scary scence in Downtown Manhattan later in the film. The movie seems like an epic in a sense, like Moonlight and Green Book. It is a decent watch and I recommend watching it for free while it's still on certain sites for free. 3 and a half out of 5. See more 04/23/2020 a very moving movie with amazing acting from the cast See more 12/26/2019 unique storytelling that I wished tied up more loose ends, but did a great job on the stories it did tell. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Tensions rise when a young man records a police officer shooting a black motorist in a Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood.
Director
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Producer
Luca Borghese, Julia Lebedev, Josh Penn, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Eddie Vaisman
Screenwriter
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Distributor
Neon
Production Co
Department of Motion Pictures, Sight Unseen Pictures
Rating
R (Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 28, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 8, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$500.1K
Runtime
1h 35m
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