'Misanthrope' is the first work in the United States by Argentine Damián Szifrón, creator of the successful Wild Tales. The detective story is a genre that is practiced less and less in American cinema.

'An elliptical work, with a lot of off-screen (the fashionable resource), Remarkable, dark, nihilistic, ideological. And despite everything, intense,' writes Tom Charity. 'It seems evident that the insistent political criticism of the system, of the entire system' is at its base.