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 teasing out the complex relationship between life and death in relationship to birth and “Frankenstein,” Moss presents a provocative existential quandary, and reminds us that horror stories have been women’s stories all along.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

It's amazing how far "birth/rebirth" goes into this amoral territory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2023

As the women’s behavior grows ever more shocking — and Ariel Marx’s nerve-plucking score intensifies — Moss offers no rebuke to their heedless amorality. There is only the audience to judge.

| Aug 17, 2023

No insurance premium can cover what this mad doctor is offering.

| Original Score: 8.1/10 | Aug 17, 2023

Habitually shooting her characters through narrow doorways and windows, the better to convey their isolation as well as their squeezed-by-circumstance states, the director fashions a sinister atmosphere, aided by intermittent pregnancy and corpse imagery.

| Aug 16, 2023

A fiendish and atmospheric riff on classic monster legends and a welcome addition to a certain horror sub-genre propelled by brawny but burdened mamas.

| Feb 14, 2023

Birth/Rebirth is a uniquely thrilling vision of horror, and Moss is a director to watch. Keep an eye out for both.

| Feb 4, 2023

Truly haunting stuff.

| Feb 3, 2023

Maternal horror with a clinical twist.

| Jan 27, 2023

“Birth/Rebirth” proves just how well the classic tale of scientific hubris and the desire to conquer death maps onto a gory maternity morality play, reanimating the truism that there’s little more (un)deadly than a mother’s love.

| Jan 26, 2023

Birth/Rebirth serves as a perverse correction, recalibrating decades of dilution to reemphasize the moral weight and emotional anguish at the heart of Shelley’s novel.

| Jan 23, 2023

The movie is freaky. But it never feigns to become a mere freakshow. It works, in part, because it hurts. It works because it defers that hurt until, at long last, it cannot be avoided.

| Jan 23, 2023

Moss and co-writer Brendan J. O’Brien give just enough creepy momentum to “birth/rebirth,” knowing that their audience is smart enough to understand that bringing a child back to life comes with a likely set of problems.

| Jan 22, 2023

A queasily clinical horror debut from Laura Moss that explores the darker sides of child rearing, from birth to death and way beyond.

| Jan 20, 2023

By the time “birth/rebirth” arrives at its whimper of a finale, few of the film’s ideas have been allowed to develop beyond their most embryonic stage.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 20, 2023