Bloody Disgusting
Solalinna’s complex and often heartbreaking performance ties it all together, even as the narrative loses some focus in the back half.
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Hatching
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IndieWire
Bergholm is skilled at keeping the tension high while finding amusing pockets of pure comedy...
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Variety
Elevated by newcomer Siiri Solalinna's fearless performance, Hanna Bergholm's debut feature puts an original spin on a familiar doppelgänger premise.
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Film Threat
Hatching is the very essence of a midnight movie and one that will undoubtedly find a sizeable cult following.
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Collider
Hatching may not be a groundbreaking horror film, but it certainly is a compelling one that gives wing to new metaphors.
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Paste
Hatching might seem like an obvious metaphor, but its ingenious artistry keeps it thoroughly horrifying throughout its lean 86 minutes.
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A.V. Club
An unsettling and surprisingly humorous foray into body horror and learned behaviour.
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The New York Times
Scrambling creature feature with psycho-horror, this inventive oddity brings tween anxieties to monstrous life.
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IGN
With delightful practical effects, and a spectacular child performance at its centre... Hatching works despite itself. It often struggles to be scary or intense, but never loses its emotional core.
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Hatching never really congeals into something thats as unsettling as it is gross.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Hatching is bigger than its ideas, and uncanny and unsettling in unconscious ways.
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NPR
Completely creepy, but also surprisingly sweet and observant about what it's like to be a 12-year-old girl.
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The Straits Times
Director Hanna Bergholm is sensitive to the ways parents fulfil their thwarted dreams through their children and Tinja's anxiety radiates from the screen.
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Hatching is coming to cinemas in New Zealand on 02 June 2022.