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• while it's far from perfect, it's a timely and well-considered thriller about the scarier aspects of genetic engineering

  by Jeff Shannon [Seattle Times ]

• thriving, disturbing, thoughtful mutant of a movie

  Review rate : B+ by Keith Phipps [A.V. Club ]

• this is not to be missed

  Review rate : B+ by Peter Paras [E! Online ]

• the film's deliberately provocative premise is worked out in broad, lurid comic-book strokes, consciously calculated to shock the easily shockable and titillate the peculiar

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• the climax is a pileup of sorts as the movie suddenly becomes an audience-pandering monster-in-the-woods creature feature

  by Kevin C. Johnson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]

• smart, scary -- and at times very funny -- horror movie

  by Lou Lumenick [NY Post ]

• pleasurably shivery

  by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]

• more enjoyable as an unabashed B-movie

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• mad, brazenly unethical, and occasionally funny, the implications are deeply upsetting

  by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• knotty and naughty

  Review rate : B+ by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]

• It begins with such promise, a kinky modernist twist on a classical sci-fi morality tale. That it degenerates into conventional, genre horror is all the more disappointing

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• Beware of unassuming nerds, warns Splice

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• "Splice" lives up to its title in both the best and worst possible ways

  by Jeff Vice [Deseret News ]

• "Splice" is a hybrid that works

  by Michael Ordona [LA Times ]

• "Splice" doesn’t overextend its reproduction allegory

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

• "It's alive!"

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

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