The characters are flat, the themes shallow, and the emotional catharsis is stilted in every scene.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 5, 2022

'Separation' is a good movie ... to stay away from.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 8, 2021

The only separation that exists here is the vast one between good and bad filmmaking, and Separation falls decidedly on the side of the latter.

| Jun 6, 2021

Separation could have either gone for a nuanced family drama that happened to have ghosts or it could've been an over the top haunted house film with a plethora of unique ghouls and wild twist, but instead it shoots for the middle.

| May 12, 2021

Promising horror pic that can't deliver the goods.

| Original Score: C+ | May 7, 2021

Suffers from a senseless storyline and a set of unlikable characters with no redeeming qualities. The special effects are quite menacing but wasted as the film fails to connect with the audience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 7, 2021

Bell has the unfortunate ability to set the stage for a decent horror story without ever really following through.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 5, 2021

This is not just a bad horror movie, it is a bad movie overall. Everyone involved her deserved better than this and so do you. Steer clear.

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

Unfortunately, this first narrative features from scribes Nick Amadeus and Josh Braun gluts itself on phantom red herrings atop the shoulders of a formidably insipid protagonist in Rupert Friend.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 3, 2021

A pale pastiche of better movies, Separation might not be good, but its marionette mayhem emerges as curiously entertaining.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 3, 2021

The basic nature of Separation's supernatural evil isn't even clear in one seriously confused movie.

| May 3, 2021

Bell knows how to pull dread out of the air, and he orchestrates the oppressive atmosphere and the periodic scares with masterful precision.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2021

It balances the typical ghost story plot with enough reality that people do face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2021

A solid cast and some stylish visual flourishes can't save a film that jettisons its more high-minded ambitions for some formulaic child-in-peril nonsense.

| May 1, 2021

This "imaginary friend" horror movie takes its time and tries hard to focus on relationships and emotions, but the characters still feel somehow stiff and flat, as if they were only half-finished.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2021

There's only one proper way to settle with the film: split from it.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 30, 2021

There are no believable characters, no rising tension, and no scares in this Insidious meets Kramer vs. Kramer.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 30, 2021

Thanks to computer imagery that betrays its digital origins, the things that go bump in the night are more irritating than frightening.

| Original Score: 74/100 | Apr 30, 2021

[A] dull and misogynistic affair that imagines multiple types of women as malevolent fiends who terrorize supposedly sympathetic men.

| Apr 30, 2021

A lazy rehash of cliches that has been assembled in such a haphazard and disinterested manner that it suggests nothing but contempt for anyone foolish enough to actually spend a few bucks and two precious hours on it.

| Apr 29, 2021