Is Robert Altman's adaptation of an array of Raymond Carver works a critique of toxic masculinity? Probably not purposefully, but it works. We've got about a dozen male characters whose problems almost all stem from their objectification of women, their sense of entitlement to women, or their resentment of the sexuality of the women in their lives. It's basically Bad Middle Class White People: The Movie, too, so there's that.

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