A chilling blend of paranoia and supernatural horror.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 12, 2025

A creepy and unsettling drama that manages to weave an intriguing web of mystery while highlighting the very real psychological toll associated with a career in health care.

| Feb 20, 2025

The audience will be absorbed in trying to decipher the clues, but because Thompson and his brother and cowriter Christopher Thompson do not stick to a lane, the payoff will feel anticlimactic.

| Feb 19, 2025

All of this is handled skillfully enough by the director. But his script crams in too many red herrings and logic gaps for the story to bear.

| Feb 15, 2025

In Rounding, you can see the basic outline of a worthy psychological drama, but its screenplay fails to turn that vague shape into a fleshed-out story, instead relying on the viewer to fill in the gaps, while the horror elements merely detract.

| Original Score: 5.3/10 | Feb 15, 2025

Even if it’s subject to dramatic exaggerations and horror-infused detours, the film remains unsettling as an intimate examination of medical ethics and emotional attachment.

| Feb 14, 2025

While Smallwood’s character as written is essentially reactive, the actor’s facility with charged stillness sets the tone. This is not full-on scare stuff; it’s more interior.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2025

“Rounding” doesn’t quite make its own case, in terms of the symbolism it throws into the mix, but as a portrayal of a man falling apart from overwhelming stress it works quite well.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2025

At times feels more like a resident than a fellow: still in the process of becoming whatever it’s meant to be, leaving questions unanswered in a manner that suggests it might not know them either.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2025

Smallwood is very good at presenting the terror and fatigue driving James into the ground, but the script's choice for him to admit the truth as though he's been actively lying rather than subconsciously hiding undercuts its emotional impact.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 14, 2025

[The] movie is genuinely compelling when it ... dramatizes the constant strain on a doctor's body and mind. Everything else either gets in the way or feels like an idea in need of more attention...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 14, 2025

There isn’t so much a blending of genres but rather forcing one into a story without realizing it’s not fitting

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2025

Namir Smallwood is superb in his portrayal of James, who is either going to get it together or fall apart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2025

Undercooked, unfocused and clunky.

| Feb 11, 2025

A few scenes show glimmers of promise for what Alex Thompson can achieve when he’s more in his wheelhouse. It’s a shame that the horror and tension that make up the bulk of Rounding are so clearly outside of it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2025

Unfortunately, while this thriller has traces of that kind of amazing story I was hoping for, they’re not enough to overcome a lack of tonal identity or fleshed-out ideas that heavily compromises the entire experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2024

The horror elements help elevate this from a story that at times lacks to punch execute its ambitious setup but, anchored by a great performance from Namir Smallwood Rounding is a nice creepy drama.

| Original Score: C | Aug 11, 2023

In spite of some unevenness and the needless horror-genre pandering, Rounding finishes on a strong note. Smallwood and Potts’ capable performances enhance the story and bolster the better parts of this dark drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2023

Upsetting but emotionally sound psychological thriller.

| Original Score: B | Aug 31, 2022

We don’t often stop to consider what an absolute horror show it must be for a doctor to go around helplessly giving bad news but Alex Thompson’s film does a pretty good job of conveying that.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2022