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Movie Overview
Cast
• Angela Bettis
• Jeremy Sisto
• Anna Faris
Director
• Lucky McKee
MPAA Rating
R - strong violence/gore, some sexuality, and language
May (2003)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh
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2.5/4
"Lucky Mckee's film works better as a misfit character study than it does a purebred slasher flick."  Movie Boeuf  David N. Butterworth

B-
"It's slightly better than the usual slasher flick."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"Not only one of the most auspicious and original independent features in years--particularly for a first-time filmmaker--but it is one of the best films of 2003...Genuinely disturbing."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

B+
"An astonishingly distasteful movie, yet an altogether enjoyable one, if that's your thing."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

3.5/4
"May has you entranced in a humorous, slighty freaky affair that has no qualms on raising the stakes after establishing a character we care about deeply."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

D-
"Tone-deaf and structurally flaccid, 'May' is little more than a Troma movie with unrealized pretensions...In short, 'May' not."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

3/10
"We never connect with and/or care about the character."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

8/10
"Ideal mixture of laughs, gross-out moments and just plain creepiness."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

2/5
"McKee's darkly clever notion that tragic hipsters doing their second-hand damnedest to be weird are thoroughly unprepared to handle someone who truly is weird gets bogged down in a listless narrative and one-dimensional characterizations."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

8/10
" MAY is a very nasty and disturbing little horror film that the viewer will probably either love or hate. It is very unpleasant see and at the same time mesmerizing."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

3.5/4
"Not many horror movies can dig below the surface, but May does, and for that reason it deserves to be seen."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

B
"Benefits from bursts of gory black humor as well as Bettis' riveting performance."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

5/5
"Proves that fresh new work can be done in the horror genre if the director follows his or her own shadowy muse."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

B
"Standard, low-budget slasher film, elevated by a breakthrough performance by Angela Bettis."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

"You have to look to McKee's search for the poetic truth that lies at the heart of the film to find the true beauty of his work."  Movie Views  Ryan Cracknell

5/5
"There's no denying that May is simply NOT a film for all tastes, but if you like your genres stewed together and cooked into a film so sinfully wonderful that it defies description, I absolutely recommend you search this one out as soon as possible"  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

C-
"McKee's patchwork horror is neither subversively clever nor an imaginatively engineered shock-and-surprise ride. He should have spent his time building a better psycho."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

3/4
"May, composed, as a character, of the exhumed fractions of genre debts, is the film's only Frankenstein's monster."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

4/5
Read review  Mike Bracken's Horror Films  Mike Bracken

B
Read review  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow
OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh
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