| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Fascinating and exciting yet disturbing and potentially upsetting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2010

I love the character of Dren, which is nerd spelt backwards. I loved the relationship between her and her putative parents: Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2010

It doesn't go the complete distance, but this is a wholly admirable, refreshingly grown-up science-fiction movie: a Frankenstein with a beating, gene-spliced heart and top-of-the-range performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2010

This Cronenbergian exploration of the perils of inter-species gene-splicing wrestles with some topical and disturbing ideas, but never quite pins them down.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2010

It's refreshing to see a genre movie that credits its audience with a bit of intelligence, and Splice has got a lot going on under the bonnet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2010

A [final] turn for the mundane doesn't negate the preceding, metaphorically sturdy B-movie thrills.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 15, 2010

While the film doesn't stray a lot from its genre roots thanks to its take no prisoners attitude and largely because of Brody, Polley and especially Chanéac it's always easy to watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2010

[It's] witty, aware of its own craziness, and disarmingly insightful about the psychology of its characters.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2010

A must-see for sci-fi and horror nuts, even if Natali throws away a perfectly compelling first two acts in favor of the big 'Oh no they didn't' ending.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 4, 2010

Splice is a genre picture that, almost without you noticing it, gets under your skin for both creepy crawly and emotional gains.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 4, 2010

A good horror flick always does metaphoric battle with our interior demons, and Splice summons them in impressive numbers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2010

Daring, disturbing and deliciously twisted.

| Original Score: A | Jun 4, 2010

What makes Splice morally compelling isn't the bioethics quandaries it raises so much as the way it delves into parenthood.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2010

The horror genre needs more films like this one; works made by filmmakers willing to take chances and deliver something to viewers that they would never expect.

| Jun 4, 2010

An engrossing, if flawed, techno thriller that never quite goes where expected, and that's what makes it such a pleasant surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 4, 2010

A thoroughly repulsive science fiction-horror flick that slicks up its B-movie tawdriness with high-gloss production values and two otherwise classy stars.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 4, 2010

The cheap thrills are few and far between in Splice, which prides itself on being more of a thinking man's monster mash.

| Original Score: 70/100 | Jun 4, 2010

Brody and Polley's performances keep the film grounded in a semblance of reality even when it threatens to go over the top near the end, and director Natali infuses the proceedings with a consistent sense of nail-biting dread.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2010

It wants to tour the scarred human psyche, yet the cobbled-together screenplay is silly when it should be spooky, cold when it should boil over and dumb when it should be smart.

| Jun 4, 2010