The Cow

Name: The Cow
Genre: Comedy

Comedy

🍅96%

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96%

Tomatometer

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69%

Popcornmeter

Storyline

A World War II American pilot hatches a plan to use a cow to help him avoid capture and find his way across Germany to freedom.

Details

DirectorMarc Forster

StatusCanceled

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Studio

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Charlie Granger

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

7 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“A stark and emotionally resonant look at the life of a farm animal, Cow simply yet insistently asks the viewer to reconsider their relationship with their food.”

96% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Jessica Kiang

RTSight & SoundMay 14, 2026

Luma the cow stars in Andrea Arnold’s passionate and confrontatively immersive dairy industry documentary.

Christina Newland

RTiNews.co.ukSep 19, 2024

The result is heartwrenching.

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

RTMetro Newspaper (UK)Dec 27, 2022

The British auteur Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) turns to documentary with this powerful, cow’s eye view of the dairy industry. You may never look a pint of milk in the face again.

William Stottor

RTLoud and Clear ReviewsJul 18, 2024

In her first documentary feature Cow, Andrea Arnold concocts a deeply profound and strikingly resonant film about a mother’s forced separation from her child.