2024NR

COW

Name: COW
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
Released: 2024-07-27

When livestock... becomes killstock...

ComedyScience Fiction8m

🍅96%

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96%

Tomatometer

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69%

Popcornmeter

Storyline

A cargo-ship-piloting alien is on his usual livestock abduction route when an angry farmer sneaks aboard the ship disguised as a cow, with a burning desire for vengeance.

Details

DirectorsJoe Appel, Tristan Alkemper

ReleasedJul 27, 2024

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

7 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“A stark and emotionally resonant look at the life of a farm animal, Cow simply yet insistently asks the viewer to reconsider their relationship with their food.”

96% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Jessica Kiang

RTSight & SoundMay 14, 2026

Luma the cow stars in Andrea Arnold’s passionate and confrontatively immersive dairy industry documentary.

Christina Newland

RTiNews.co.ukSep 19, 2024

The result is heartwrenching.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

RTMetro Newspaper (UK)Dec 27, 2022

The British auteur Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) turns to documentary with this powerful, cow’s eye view of the dairy industry. You may never look a pint of milk in the face again.

William Stottor

RTLoud and Clear ReviewsJul 18, 2024

In her first documentary feature Cow, Andrea Arnold concocts a deeply profound and strikingly resonant film about a mother’s forced separation from her child.