The naked, exposed, inexperienced actress at the movie’s center deserves better.

| Original Score: C | Aug 31, 2022

Typifies middling Hollywood schlock: a pulpy, sleazy sci-fi/horror creature feature destined to cycle endlessly through cable airings and, now, to pad out streaming platforms.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2022

While the effects often don’t hold up, and the script structure isn’t fully formed, this is a great slice of 90s-era sci-fi paranoia.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2022

As a sci-fi horror film, it has an interesting premise that looks like an eroticized clone of 'Alien', but traverses overly predictable terrain that only makes its alien hunt boring and silly conventional. [Full review in Spanish]

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

It’s bad, but it’s not terrible. It has everything you love about B-movies including the evil scientists, a government cover-up, and a stoic badass with an impossible name (Preston Lennox?). At over ninety minutes, 'Species' never overstays its welcome.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2022

An entertaining creature feature crossed with an erotic thriller, featuring a stacked cast. The film seems to understand that Natasha Henstridge's Sil is more interesting than the humans, who putter around uselessly for most of the film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2022

If you want to find out what a mistake it is to send messages into outer space, see Species, but I’m warning you: It’s kids’ stuff -- horrid kids, not a bit like Mr. Bunny’s adventures, and we’ve all forgotten how violent his cartoons were.

| Apr 21, 2022

It's not original to mix alien violence with sex, but this latest endeavor certainly ups the degrees of both of those components.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 2, 2022

An imaginatively cast and tautly directed sci-fi/horror hybrid that doesn't quite escape the timeworn dictates of its plotline.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2021

The best that can be said about 'Species' is that the soundtrack composed by Christopher Young is OK. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 23, 2019

Standard special effects these days, but what lifts Species above the average is the bunch of boffins trying to track down Sil in LA (great camouflage for a weirdo) before she reproduces.

| Dec 3, 2018

There's basic pleasure to be had from the gruesome, orgasmic demises of its gaggle of mid-price character players.

| Dec 3, 2018

As a straight fright film, Species would be wildly laughable for all the wrong reasons. But for moviegoers able to shelve credibility and go with the gory flow, it is a nifty parody of 1950s science-fiction fare.

| Dec 3, 2018

It's lip-smackingly good, gory horror fare, with a whole series of thrilling sequences topped off by a cliffhanging climax.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2018

It would be comforting to think that the genus Cinema Americana were guided by the principal of natural selection, but cloning and reversion seem, rather, to be the norm.

| Dec 3, 2018

I must admit I really enjoyed Species. I like being manipulated by a clever director, even though it isn't the best of its genre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 3, 2018

It's a lot of fun. It's certainly well directed. We've seen it all before, but I enjoyed it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 3, 2018

It's a sex horror-fantasy without laughs or life, a nightmare without sense, a casual pickup that should have been left at the disco.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2018

Despite its silly excesses of misogyny -- watch out for female sexuality, it'll kill ya! -- this absurdly exploitative sci-fi movie is not unpleasant to watch.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2018

As cheesy exploitation, Species offers a few cheap thrills for the teen-age boys who are too young to see it but will get in anyway. For the rest of us, its untidy mixture of misogyny and gore seems to represent the DNA of sleaze.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2018