"From the moment Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn's tinny, non-traditional score rises, there's a, "Wait, did they mean to do that?" quality to the film. Ravenous doesn't sound or look like other movies—for better and for worse. That eccentricity helps once it becomes clearer that Ravenous is meant to function as a historical/political allegory, using the "survival of the fittest" plot as an analogue to the way the U.S. gobbled up land throughout the 19th century. The movie is really about Boyd's ethical crisis as he realizes that being a soldier—and a cannibal—means swallowing things he finds distasteful. Bird and Griffin aren't shy about making that point; Ravenous openly declares its meaning over and over during its final half-hour. But the rest of the film is so entertainingly odd that the lack of subtlety doesn't seem so egregious. Whatever the circumstances that led to the cast and crew of Ravenous feeling abandoned and aimless, from scene to scene, they did their best to make something distinctive." - Noel Murray, The Dissolve