Finds great middle ground between heavy metaphor and practical monster fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2022

An elegantly horrible coming-of-age.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2022

Bergholm isn’t exactly subtle about doling out the metaphors, but “Hatching” sustains a fugue state of empathy and unease that puts it within shouting distance of David Lynch, and Solalinna is impressive in the lead...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2022

This artful combination of horror film and pubescent trauma is distinguished by its insights into the world of its young teen heroine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2022

Bergholm may not venture as far afield as might be hoped, but in less than 90 minutes she announces her arrival as a talent to keep an eye on; hopefully we’ll soon see what happens when she really takes wing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2022

Completely [creepy], but also surprisingly sweet and observant about what it's like to be a 12-year-old girl.

| May 10, 2022

“Hatching” is bigger than its ideas, and uncanny and unsettling in unconscious ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2022

Hatching never really congeals into something thats as unsettling as it is gross.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2022

Subversive, stomach-churning, and visionary, a body-horror film that doubles as a fable of femininity gone wrong.

| Apr 28, 2022

Hatching is an assured and promising debut for Bergholm with a jaw-dropping ending that may just cement it as a cult classic in the making.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2022

There is no compelling nature to this porcelain family. It’s like stepping into a dollhouse, and while beautiful aesthetically, the hollowness permeates the atmosphere almost too well.

| Apr 28, 2022

A sometimes uneasy merger of monster movie and psychological horror — with a dollop of social-media satire — this inventive first feature mines tween confusion... for grotesque fun.

| Apr 28, 2022

An unsettling and surprisingly humorous foray into body horror and learned behavior.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 27, 2022

Like many great monster movies, "Hatching" uses a monster as a metaphor for repressed emotion, and the creature at the center of this film is one of the most uniquely grotesque creations seen on screen in a long time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2022

A squirmy, anxiety-inducing pleasure... A body-horror/creature-feature hybrid done up in florals, feathers and lace. Maybe don't eat first.

| Feb 4, 2022

Funny at points and scary at others, Bergholm’s trippy feature debut is a shocking oddity that you can’t stop watching.

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

The ham-handed allegorical construction, generically titled characters, and self-serious tone in its final third drains the story of the specificity that might have resulted in a more incisive critique of the perils of perfectionism.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 31, 2022

For longtime horror buffs, this feels like something fresh: a simple story, told in the rawest and most startling way, and given a face out of nightmares.

| Jan 28, 2022

An alternately beautiful and disgusting metaphor for the grossness of girlhood, Hatching is somehow a mash-up of Eighth Grade, Gremlins, and E.T.

| Jan 28, 2022

An endearingly grotesque horror-comedy about the messiness of parenting.

| Jan 27, 2022