Appealing leads, a big heart and great monster design and splatter make terrific fun.

| Apr 28, 2021

Love And Monsters is a blast, an unassuming, immensely winning monster movie filled with great lo-fi creatures and a likeable cast. As a template for making a leaner, less bloated summer movie, Hollywood could do a lot worse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2021

Director Michael Matthews has invented a new sub-genre: dank comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2021

Plays it both sweet and silly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2021

It's not mock-heroic in a winking way; it doesn't seem so pleased with its own punchlines. It's rueful and shrugging.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2021

Michael Matthews' "Love and Monsters" is the rarest kind of movie these days: A fun, imaginative, genre-mashing adventure that was made with a modest amount of big studio money.

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2020

At times it is quite creative and others it feels way too familiar. While the monsters' very presence and actions don't make a lick of sense, they are at least uniquely conceived, even if the supporting characters are many times unnecessary formulaic...

| Original Score: B- | Oct 21, 2020

Though it's moderately likable throughout, only when "Love and Monsters" gets serious about the difficulties of Joel's situation does it feel genuinely relevant.

| Oct 19, 2020

An excellent display of O'Brien's infectious imagination and comic energy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2020

An imaginative post-apocalyptic coming-of-age film...

| Oct 15, 2020

A happy-go-lucky adventure through an apocalyptic danger zone.

| Oct 15, 2020

There's a kicky spirit to the whole production and the effects are first-rate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2020

A daffily lightweight throwback to the teen action-adventures of the '80s and '90s.

| Oct 15, 2020

It's not as if anyone had been clamoring for it, except maybe those for whom the concept of a young Christian Slater with all of the edge sanded off somehow proves irresistible.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 14, 2020