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The Humans
Directed by
Stephen Karam
R
2021
1h 46m
Drama
6.1
92%
45%
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As a family celebrates Thanksgiving, the loving, tight-knit group tries to hold together in the face of an uncertain future.
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Cast of The Humans
Richard Jenkins
Erik
Jayne Houdyshell
Deirdre
Amy Schumer
Aimee
Beanie Feldstein
Brigid
Steven Yeun
Richard
June Squibb
Momo
The Humans Ratings & Reviews
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Hewitt
"The Humans" was an unsettling play. As a movie, it's flat-out terrifying.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The house is definitely haunted in "The Humans," Stephen Karam's skillfully filmed adaptation of his Tony-winning 2016 play.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
The cast's chemistry never quite gels beyond their staged circumstances, and too much of the dialogue replicates actual life without finding a deeper resonance...
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
"The Humans" gets a lot done in a short amount of time, in a single, two-level setting, plus a few fraught intimations of what's down the hall or around the corner.
Associated Press
Jocelyn Noveck
A six-person cast can be hard to pull off if there's a weak link. Luckily, there is not.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
A collision of horror and humor that's as human as it is cringeworthy
Chicago Reader
Max Maller
At times, unexplained booming noises from upstairs, burned-out lights, and the claustrophobia of it all shade the ambience into horror movie territory. Chekhov by electric lamplight, A24 style, for the holidays.
The Atlantic
Shirley Li
The Humans features no ghosts, monsters, or poltergeists. It's not set inside a haunted house, an abandoned building, or a tract of shadowy woods. And yet, it might be the scariest movie of the year.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
The performances are quite good; everyone here is being so naturalistic... I'm not sure that I need that sense of the horror film, though.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Christy Lemire
The claustrophobia is the point.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Todd McCarthy
The actors are uniformly impeccable; none are stars and they're all perfection. This is one of the rare one-set theater pieces that has actually been enhanced and deepened through its transfer to the screen.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Rather than wear influences on his sleeve, the first-time director has fabricated a bespoke suit out of them -- but it's still his work.
Mashable
Kristy Puchko
It's a savagely sophisticated film.
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
The Humans, writer/director Stephen Karam's arty, melancholic screen adaptation of his Tony award-winning play, is painful in a good way; the anguish of the characters is aching and heartfelt.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
Karam lays on the surreal unease too heavily at times, but the actors come to his rescue again and again, creating a terribly moving portrait of an American family as the lights go out one by one.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
It looms large in the small canon of Thanksgiving cinema, a quintessential stomachache of a movie.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
One of the eeriest family comedies ever made.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
Karam is too honest to offer closing palliatives to his characters or his audience. But when he plunges us into darkness here, as decisively as he did onstage, he does so with all the more bracing certainty that the lights will come up.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jen Chaney
Karam has translated his stage work into a film that never feels static. It lives somewhere in the genre space between indie drama and thriller, smack-dab between the surreal and the all too real.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Karam's adaptation of his own Tony-winning drama keeps everything focused, steady and steely.
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