Hatching turns an odd bird’s shell into a nesting doll of dysfunction

The film, directed by Hanna Bergholm and starring Siiri Solalinna and Sophia Heikila, combines sensitive performances and gross-out body horror.

A girl brings home a mysterious egg in this Finnish horror. Read the Empire review.

Our film critics scoped out the best, buzziest and most unexpected titles of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Read on for our final dispatch from the fest, w...

Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s creature-feature debut stirs the simmering conflict between a controlling mother, her fragile daughter and a rogue doppel...

Hanna Bergholm's feature debut uses a very big egg to unpack some very big ideas about womanhood.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Wade Major review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.

In the Finnish horror film 'Hatching,' directed by Hanna Bergholm, a young girl forms a symbiotic relationship with a bird monster she raises from an egg.

Twelve-year-old Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a young gymnast tirelessly training for an upcoming competition, but is mostly desperate to appease the…

‘Firebird,’ a gay romance centered on two Soviet soldiers, has been suppressed in Russia but comes to Bay Area theaters April 29.

And the director used tech teams from Star Wars and The Dark Knight to build it

Hatching never really congeals into something that’s as unsettling as it is gross.

On the second half of this year's Midnights program from the Sundance Film Festival. 

The harbinger couldn’t be clearer or more simple. A crow crashes into a window of the “lovely everyday life of an ordinary Finnish family.” It gets in ...

Visceral coming-of-age horror from Finland will appeal to fans of Scandi-genre fare

Beneath the prestige-horror trappings of incredibly uneven 'Hatching' lies a grungy little creature feature yearning to break free.

In Hatching, director Hanna Bergholm uses practical effects to deliver an effective exploration of puberty and the societal pressures placed on women.

The society pictured in this kind of film seems a little too clean and white. But as ever, there are cracks in the surface.

Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) has the perfect family. The kind of family who would no doubt have made Adolf Hitler shed a single, wistful tear. It’s because of...

Hanna Bergholm's terrifying feature debut suggests a dark reckoning for parents who care more about perfection than their children's happiness

The best of the best from this year's virtual Sundance.

"Bullet Train and "Bodies Bodies Bodies" in theaters, "Thirteen Lives" and more on demand.

Elevated by Siiri Solalinna's fearless performance, Hanna Bergholm's debut feature puts an original spin on a familiar doppelgänger premise.