It’s been four years since Alex Garland’s previous film, Annihilation, the lavish Netflix sci-fi picture starring Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Men, his newly released bucolic horror, is, at least in terms of scale, somewhat lesser. Jessie Buckley plays Harper, a woman seeking solace in the English countryside following the death of her troubled husband. After renting an old manor house, things (expectedly) become a little spooky: Harper finds herself unnerved after being stalked by a feral nudist through the supposedly calming woodland. This nudist is played by Rory Kinnear (perhaps best known to moviegoers for his role as Tanner in the Daniel Craig Bond films), and the wax-jacket-wearing toff landlord is played by Rory Kinnear, as is the local bobby, publican, lascivious priest, and misogynistic pre-teen. Following Buckley’s striking-as-always performance, this is
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It’s been four years since Alex Garland’s previous film, Annihilation, the lavish Netflix sci-fi picture starring Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Men, his newly released bucolic horror, is, at least in terms of scale, somewhat lesser. Jessie Buckley plays Harper, a woman seeking solace in the English countryside following the death of her troubled husband. After renting an old manor house, things (expectedly) become a little spooky: Harper finds herself unnerved after being stalked by a feral nudist through the supposedly calming woodland. This nudist is played by Rory Kinnear (perhaps best known to moviegoers for his role as Tanner in the Daniel Craig Bond films), and the wax-jacket-wearing toff landlord is played by Rory Kinnear, as is the local bobby, publican, lascivious priest, and misogynistic pre-teen. Following Buckley’s striking-as-always performance, this is