While the DAISIES-like fanciful behavior of the heroines of director Athina Rachel Tsangari's earlier film ATTENBERG was non-conformist and anarchic, the escalating games of masculine one-upmanship in Tsangari's "buddy movie without the buddies" CHEVALIER - the titular ring the prize for "the best in general" as they drift back to Athens after a diving and fishing expedition on the Aegean sea - is deconstructive on notions of masculinity and homosocial relationships. The six men constitute three pairs - host Yorgos (Panos Koronis, BEFORE MIDNIGHT) and business partner Jozef (Vangelis Mourikis, THE WINTER), Doc (Yiorgos Kendros) and younger fellow clinic doctor Christos (singer Sakis Rouvas), and insurance salesman Yorgos (Yorgos Pirpassopoulos) - married to Doc's daughter who was once involved with Christos - and his awkward and pudgy brother Dimitris (Makis Papadimitriou), a rock collector in search of a perfectly round natural specimen. In attempts to score more points or just to outright humiliate one another, they blackmail, reveal or withhold private knowledge with whiny petulance, childishness, and bad sportsmanship over judgements and scoring threatening their reputations, their long-lasting friendships and partnerships, as well as their health. Tsangari keeps things unpredictable with challenges ranging from sleeping posture and grooming to assembling shelves and cooking octopus, with the closest thing to a "whip 'em out and measure" challenge backfiring in a not so reductive manner. Funny and thought-provoking but less stimulating in the manner of ATTENBERG producer Yorgos Lanthimos' DOGTOOTH follow-up ALPS.