Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, The Humans follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, The Humans follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point.
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| The GuardianBenjamin LeeThere’s something both reassuring and terrifying about it all, the family’s resilient warmth and togetherness providing comfort as the existential horror of what it all amounts to chills us simultaneously. |
| The TelegraphTim RobeyIt gives you a family hanging on by a thread, and makes the careful tending of that thread feel so desperate it’s more than a little terrifying. |
| Rolling StoneDavid FearEvery one of the performances is, to say the least, an example of what talented actors can bring to a piece of character-driven tragedy; there’s not a single weak link in this chain, while the collective chemistry suggests an instant history of affection, conflict, and shared cringing. |
| Original-CinKaren GordonSubtlety is the strength of The Humans. It is an intelligent even-handed drama where the family’s issues aren’t played to the point where they’re gruelling and destructive. Rather, they show us something more ordinary and therefore more truthful. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe confessions and tensions are commonplace, but The Humans is never less than high on the terrible power of the mundane. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe film is a remarkably insightful and powerful portrait of the human condition. |
| The Irish TimesTara BradyThe ensemble remains electrifying against the damp. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAt times the movie feels like Hereditary without the supernatural elements and gore. It's a psychological horror movie about the ordinary miseries and compromises of family. |
| Austin ChronicleTrace SauveurKaram manages an incredible feat of genre-bending, as neither the comedy nor horror impairs the other. Each is built so naturally within the drama: The laughs are the result of simply having well-realized characters and the scares an existential manifestation of their contentions. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeI’ll admit that Karam’s camera strays down one too many empty hallways for my taste, but I love the patience with which he lets things unfold, the respect he shows this family, and the way these characters don’t feel like characters at all, but real people — fellow humans. |
