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birth/rebirth

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 38m
  •  (5)
  • 78

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Laura Moss

Producer:

Mali Elfman, David Grove Churchill Viste, Jordan Barker

Release Date:

Aug 18, 2023

Runtime:

1hr 38m

Synopsis

Rose (Marin Ireland) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction. She also has an obsession - the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister). When one tragic night, Lila suddenly falls ill and dies, the two women's worlds crash into each other. They embark on a dark path of no return where they will be forced to confront how far they are willing to go to protect what they hold most dear.

Cast

  • Judy Reyes
  • Marin Ireland
  • Breeda Wool
  • Monique Gabriela Curnen
  • LaChanze
  • Erica Sweany
  • Asha Etchison
  • Rachel Zeiger-Haag

Atom User Reviews

 2.8 out of 5
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If you’re looking for an undead child crawling on the ceiling zombie flick this is NOT IT I took my boyfriend and he learned more about women’s anatomy and childbirth than he or I both expected. We thought this was a horror movie but it’s just a movie about the horrors of childbirth and motherhood, do not watch if you’ve ever had a miscarriage :(

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This movie is twisted! watch it!

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Metacritic

78
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Based on 17 Critics
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USER SCORE (2)

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90
Aug 21, 2023

Streaks of sadism emphasize the prevailing humanity, as do the borderline-psychedelic brushstrokes: the intentionally murky nightmarish visuals, Ariel Marx’s nervous score, the bleak set design, the impassivity with which cinematographer Chananun Chotrunngroj’s camera observes the two women’s descent into madness.

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Metacritic review by Alex Saveliev
Alex Saveliev
Film Threat
75
Aug 18, 2023

Birth/rebirth has some body horror tropes and some straight horror tropes, but it's not really a monster story. It's more of a medical thriller, helmed by two twisted conspirators, both operating from a place of desperation and trauma.

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Metacritic review by Sheila O'Malley
Sheila O'Malley
RogerEbert.com
91
Aug 17, 2023

Even as the film pulls out all the stops, the character work remains subtle in a way that gets under your skin. The magnificent performances of Reyes and Ireland align perfectly, peeling back the humanity their two characters had only tenuously been clinging to.

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