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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzCronenberg offers a light touch to the material, spiking the deeply depressing dystopia with a sibling-rivalry battle royale that eagerly, if sometimes wobblily, shifts between sharp humour and slippery sentimentality.
- 70ColliderShaina WeatherheadColliderShaina WeatherheadThrough its dynamic direction, clever script, and stellar, largely Canadian cast, Humane has earned a place in the longstanding genre of ecological thrillers. It's a fun, bloody reminder not only of how far people will go to save themselves, but to always bring pepper spray to an unexpected family dinner.
- 70Paste MagazineMatthew JacksonPaste MagazineMatthew JacksonIt’s solid, and at its best it’s an impishly entertaining little thriller. But all the talent in the world can’t overcome the feeling that there is more here to be mined, if only Humane had dug just a little deeper.
- 67The Film StageAlistair RyderThe Film StageAlistair RyderThe biggest surprise with her directorial debut Humane might be just how comfortably this could sit alongside Blumhouse and Screen Gems shlock at your local multiplex: a well-engineered, single-location thriller that prioritizes bloody, gut-punch twists and turns over the more thoughtful introspection that typically accompanies this in a Cronenberg effort.
- 67Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAustin ChronicleRichard WhittakerIf Brandon absorbed daddy dearest’s predilection for body horror and new flesh, then Caitlin has clearly studied his razor wit and grasp of metaphorical social commentary.
- 60The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonThe New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonThis isn’t a movie with much to say, but it’s the sort of thought experiment that will keep you up at night.
- 58The A.V. ClubBrent SimonThe A.V. ClubBrent SimonIt certainly makes good on its modest budget. Future historians, meanwhile, can more fully assess the noteworthiness of its narrative choices.
- 58IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichHumane doesn’t want to be a hard-hitting drama about moral equity in an unequal world that nobody escapes alive, it wants to be a satirical — and increasingly basic — thriller about the evils of financially incentivized health policies in a world where nobody deserves to die, and it’s hard for it to succeed on those terms without caring about which of its characters ends up in Bob’s other body bag.
- 50Slant MagazineJustin ClarkSlant MagazineJustin ClarkCaitlin Cronenberg vests her images with an eerie, confident power, but that’s more evident in her examinations of the frictions between the characters, and not so much in the tapestry of murder and mayhem that ensues.
- 50RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThe scariest thing about “Humane” is how genuinely believable its nightmare vision ends up being. However, the film’s micro approach to a macro crisis never connects because we’re never given a reason to care about these specific people.