Fans of Hannibal will enjoy the mordant humor and gross, yet slick visuals (and its allusions to the Wendigo myth).

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

That a major studio (20th Century-Fox) gave this a wide release, despite its gonzo premise and lack of stars, is heartening; that this noble experiment has tanked on arrival is discouraging

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Sep 2, 2022

Fascinating is how Ravenous occupies various genres throughout and yet never completely gives in to any one of them—it's a ride in that sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2022

Obviously [the film] has some really top name actors but... the best thing about this movie is the script writing.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 12, 2021

Cannibalism as a metaphor for homosexuality may not seem like the most obvious path to take, but it makes Ravenous a fiendishly interesting entry into the cannibalism sub-genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2020

An idiosyncratic cannibal masterpiece about the ceaselessness of American violence.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2020

The film offers nothing to sharpen your teeth with. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Oct 29, 2019

Ravenous will doubtless find some sort of cult following, but that cult will be following a lousy, ill-conceived movie.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2019

A disproportionate film. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Oct 29, 2019

I]f anyone could make a good adaptation of either of Lansdale's Jonah Hex comic mini-series or his great standard "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," it's Bird and Griffin.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2019

It's such an odd and compelling mixture of horror and subtle comedy, with some really weird music cues throughout to put the audience in a state of unease, perfect for someone losing their mind from eating people.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2019

Antonia Bird's pitch black comedy is a patchily hilarious triumph. But the queasy and squeamish have been warned.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2019

It's too muddled to be considered a success, but the fact that such an uncompromisingly mean, loopy film can still be made within the studio system will be reason enough for some people -- and you know who you are -- to celebrate.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2019

Ravenous is a stupid black comedy set in the same place and the same year but more a Western version of Night of the Living Dead.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2019

It's "Eating Raoul" in buckskins. But the movie is also coarse and bloody and uses far too many horror movie tricks, like the shock of the mutilated body or the unexpected plasma squirt.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2019

... the definitive frontier cannibal movie. ... a gruesome survival thriller with a crimson-hued streak of black humor and an elemental hint of the supernatural.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2016

It's a layered and very unique satire on America's consumption of the world...

Full Review | Jun 25, 2014

Imagine a film that makes A Modest Proposal-style satire out of Dracula's gothic horror tropes in the spaghetti western milieu of The Great Silence. It's a pitch-black comedy about Manifest Destiny and cannibal frontiersmen.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2014

'He was licking me!' That plaintive, disgusted wail is pretty unforgettable once you've seen this one-of-a-kind tongue-in-cheek/blood-in-mouth historical horror movie that has garnered an appreciative cult audience...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2014

Ravenous is unlike anything else, and even if it's not to my own specific taste, I have great respect for its unrepentant weirdness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2014