Let me preface this review of “Welcome to the Men’s Group,” a comedy about modern men’s-work groups, with a quote from my review of the documentary “The Work,” which covers the same basic subject matter, except far, far more effectively. (In fact, there’s no comparison.):
Of all the film critics on Rotten Tomatoes writing about the documentary “The Work,” I’m the only one who has actually done the work (and facilitated the work) on display in this riveting documentary about healing, set in a maximum-security prison. And done it with three of the actual facilitators in the film.
In addition, it’s pretty much guaranteed that I’m also the only film critic who’s read all the literature about men’s work since the 1980s, staffed five weekends, and attended a weekly men’s group for six years.
