birth/rebirth repurposes old parts to create new life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2024

Birth/Rebirth is a provocative and disturbing thriller, sharply and thoughtfully executed by Moss.

| May 21, 2024

There’s a lot to love about Birth/Rebirth, but the film can’t quite overcome a slightly undercooked story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2024

Even though the pair come to what we'll call their "arrangement" for different reasons, their contradictory personalities end up meshing in a kind of perverse symbiosis.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 25, 2024

…Laura Moss’s debut feature is a sombre, grim but very effective riff on the story that Mary Shelley came up with. It’s a little Stephen King’s Pet Semetary, a little David Cronenberg, but it’s also a fierce feminist take…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2024

Uncommonly smart, Laura Mosses’ “Birth/Rebirth” puts a modern spin on the “Frankenstein” story, with a dose of “The Monkey’s Paw,” to unexpectedly powerful results.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Nov 17, 2023

It's a well made, often bold film which dares to do something quite unusual with its subject matter, even whilst still leaving us with the more established idea that death should remain a one-way destination.

| Nov 14, 2023

While the narrative occasionally gets a little wobbly, birth/rebirth is anchored by two rock solid performances by Ireland and Reyes. Bonus points for including Breeda Wool (a fave!)

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2023

It is the understated, matter-of-fact tone of the story that sucks us in, and the two central performances that help make this effort by Ms. Moss such a singular addition to the monster catalog.

| Nov 10, 2023

One of the most impactful genre films in recent times, and it's accompanied by a feminist imprint that is never demonstrated to be concessive. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

In many ways the film’s ungainliness is part of its appeal, in the sense that one can infer its ongoing resistance to convenient genre tropes and feel reassured that a Twilight Zone twist isn’t waiting round the corner.

| Oct 4, 2023

Birth/Rebirth is a great adaptation of Frankenstein and a great horror movie that tackles motherhood and tries to analyze how our ideas about life and death have changed over the years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2023

Amid all the many retellings of this classic tale of the Modern Prometheus, Birth/Rebirth remains among the most fascinating and full of potential, offering a gory look at the intersection of science and motherhood.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 13, 2023

Laura Moss’s inventive, subversive, and gross (shades of De Humani Corporis Fabrica) reimagining of Shelley’s masterpiece.

| Sep 9, 2023

birth/rebirth shows that Laura Moss has a particular voice and one that will only improve the more they use it.

| Original Score: B | Sep 6, 2023

Those who have lost children or pregnancies may feel triggered by realistic depictions of these devastating life events. Others will feel seen and validated by the unflinching eye Moss turns toward the messy act of motherhood.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 31, 2023

Reportedly inspired by Frankenstein, this impressive horror-drama gives Mary Shelley's monstrous themes a fresh, feminist twist.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2023

Birth/Rebirth horrified me because I empathized with everyone in it: with the doctor, with the nurse, even with the monster.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 25, 2023

If you’re a fan of horror that challenges the norm and leaves you feeling unsettled, the movie is a must-watch.

| Aug 24, 2023

In the advances of science, are you willing to give up what’s right to be happy and pay the cost of that? Birth/Rebirth’s ability to make you ponder those arguments is why it is so effective in its mission.

| Aug 24, 2023