[Alexis Jacknow] makes sure to weave into the narrative the innate fear and anxiety women could have, either to conform to social comfort or in anticipation of their concerns falling on deaf ears.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2024

'Clock' gets to the root of the patriarchal standards women have to operate within with a sometimes grim filter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2024

As soon as one reads the synopsis, it’s clear what they’re getting themselves into. Sure, it’s been done before, but not like this and not with this sense of urgency.

| Jul 24, 2023

Where many horror-adjacent movies can struggle evoking much of anything in the viewer, “Clock” continually succeeds at creating a feeling of destabilization.

| Original Score: B | Jul 10, 2023

Jacknow speaks to a number of compelling issues, exploring them through a horror framework in a way that can be genuinely disturbing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2023

Agron throws herself fully into the role and the first 45 minutes of Jacknow’s disturbing commentary works wonders, but it strays and winds up losing its punch near its end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 17, 2023

There is a void in the market for horror films that speak directly to nonparents. Jacknow also shows enough command of both the material and the production design to prove her horror bonafides.

| Original Score: C | May 16, 2023

Effectively disturbing thriller about a particular type of social pressure.

| Original Score: B | May 15, 2023

While a fascinating meditation on human nature and modern-day mores around childbirth, Clock is most definitely not your conventional crowd-pleasing horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 3, 2023

The central idea of the pressure on women to conceive is an interesting starting point. But the supposed clinical trial Ella participates in is so far-fetched, and her motivation too rushed, for much believability.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2023

Unsettling and disturbing, this film will sit with you for days.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 3, 2023

Jacknow hammers away with the symbolism, pulls rugs from under our feet and swerves wildly through a messy third act punctuated with some gruesome imagery. But Agron hangs on, and ultimately, we’re there with her.

| May 2, 2023

Although it’s replete with silly horror movie choices, Clock manages to encapsulate the society-induced anxiety for a family.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 28, 2023

Clock leans too heavily on too-obvious visual metaphors, but it’s still a vivid and visceral explication of one woman’s fears.

| Apr 28, 2023

Overall, this is a well-made movie that should promote some difficult conversations, even if it doesn’t necessarily succeed in the ways you would expect. Be prepared, as you cannot unsee a few things in this movie that you cannot unsee.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 28, 2023

Tapping into every expectant mother’s deep well of fears, Alexis Jacknow’s Clock is a genuinely disturbing, if flawed horror film that benefits greatly from brisk pacing and a dynamic lead performance from Dianna Agron.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2023

This is the story of a woman surrounded by fanatics attempting to indoctrinate her against her will. Because despite volunteering, the violence that ensues proves she does not consent.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 28, 2023

Clock only makes sense in the context of it forcing its main point, regardless of how nonsensical everything else becomes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 28, 2023

Writer-director Alex Jacknow is at his best when exploring the psychological terror of the whole situation. When Clock leans more into horror, it is the explorations of character that resonate more.

| Apr 28, 2023

Dianna Agron and Melora Hardin give fine performances amid the nonsense. They’re just another reason to wish that Clock had more depth and coherence than it does.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 27, 2023