Ilana Glazer shines in pregnancy thriller False Positive, but despite its clever premise, the film is ultimately a melting pot of themes and themes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2023

False Positive is bursting with ideas and talent but ultimately let down by the delivery.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2022

This is a largely regrettable misfire that feels more often than not like a script letting down a talented group of actors who are generally much better than this.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2022

Ultimately, False Positive may not entirely stick the landing, but it does offer an array of themes and moments that will merit its existence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2022

The wild ride that False Positive takes the audience on is still fun for most of the film, but the ways it lets down its lead character at the end will leave you a bit queasy.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2022

What works best is how Glazer and Lee make the proceedings just familiar enough to be relatable, while also making the story's transition into horror freakily memorable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Despite some committed performances, this twisty psychological thriller exploring the anxieties of impending motherhood feels like a muddled variation on Rosemary's Baby with only a fraction of the suspense or scares.

| Jan 28, 2022

Accurately captures a very particular type of condescending language combatively fired at pregnant women in a birth industry that robs its patients of emotional agency.

| Sep 17, 2021

That's just the endpoint of Lucy's bizarre adventure, where she has to rationalize the fact that she feels like garbage with the fact that she's following her doctor's orders and that's what respectable people are supposed to do.

| Jul 30, 2021

Reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby but the comparison points out the movie's flaws

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 16, 2021

Though Ilana Glazer delivers a solid performance, this pregnancy thriller ends up taking a predictable and unoriginal route. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 10, 2021

The strongest aspect of the screenplay, written by Ilena Glazer and John Lee, is the subtle (and not so subtle) feeling of gaslighting that Lucy experiences.

| Jul 7, 2021

Solidly entertaining, but it doesn't push the envelope far enough. Considering the biting comedic background of its creators, Glazer and John Lee seem curiously afraid of leaning into the horror here. As a result, the film is far too tepid.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2021

As problematic as it ultimately is, False Positive is interesting enough, at least for a while, to give it the slightest of recommendations.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2021

On one hand, it has some very original and unique aspects. On the other hand, it is so predictable.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 2, 2021

A ribbon of dark humor runs through this ambitious, gory horror flick.

| Jul 2, 2021

False Positive isn't the first failed pregnancy horror film, nor will it be the last. But in 2021, I think it's appropriate to ask for stories that dig deeper into motherhood rather than using hysterics (or "mommy brain") as the crutch of the film.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 2, 2021

False Positive seems incapable of resolving the dissonance between its intimations of occult conspiracy, its more surreal horror elements, and its sordid but comparatively banal plot.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 30, 2021

It's a slow-burn suspense paired with satirical commentary on how women and pregnancy are treated in society. But any tension that False Positive creates doesn't really pay off...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2021

[A] confusing and ultimately unsatisfying film that never quite decides what it wants to be...In the end, False Positive simply doesn't deliver.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2021