Mike Nichols’s divisive fourth feature is a fascinating cultural artifact.

Nichols has broken thoroughly now with his stage beginnings, integrating camera and action easily, using space and silence with the fluency of a man at home behind a lens.

A rather superficial and limited probe of American male sexual hypocrisies.

In Carnal Knowledge, we are seeing the grotesque core of the male psyche, the embodiment of the minds that led women to stand up against them with the #MeToo movement.