Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
The actors get a chance to create a real relationship, and they make the most of the opportunity.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
While not perfect, low-budget Spring takes welcome risks with the creature-feature genre.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
This oddball film's mashup innovations often come at the price of storytelling discipline and, to some extent, common sense.

Name : Joe Leydon / Alias : Variety
If Richard Linklater attempted a remake of Val Lewton's Cat People, the end result might resemble Spring.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's Spring is a clever and severely romantic creature feature that, not unlike its dim-witted bro hero, is in desperate need of a woman's touch.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Horror invades the proceedings, but it doesn't hijack them. The film continues to zig where others might zag.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
A cousin to Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' trilogy, with little hints of Lynchian unease along the way.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
The suspense and pleasure of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's talking-and-tentacles horror romance Spring lies in discovering what shape the film is going to take.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
A landmark of irresistible weirdness, "Spring" brings horror out of its long winter hibernation.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The protagonist of this low-budget indie is so well characterized that it might have developed into a straight drama instead of the horror movie it becomes, though of course that's the key to most good genre films.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out New York
Limited by the same arch tone and flippant jokes that suffocate every other low-budget indie about Gen Y confronting adulthood.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Meester and Jacobs have an easy, authentic chemistry, but there isn't enough structure or storytelling thrust to sustain interest in the plot: Triumphs, calamities and reunions keep happening, but none contains real dramatic heft.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
A well-scripted, intriguingly-acted effort to mine the theme of prolonged adolescent best-buddyism through two women.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Fogel's focus is female friendship, and the challenges presented by growing older and pairing up. It all makes for a rocky road, regardless of the romantic rival's gender.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The two stars display a winning chemistry in this amusingly observant study of female friendship.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
"A waxen falseness suffuses the stilted, stubbornly generic picture. Like the fast-food mozzarella sticks one of the characters devours in moments of existential woe, it feels like a calculated imitation rather than the real thing."

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
Fogel refuses to pander by pretending that the girls can fix everything with a hug. Sacrifices must be made.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Most of the time, the banter doesn't sound like banter; the movie shares Sasha and Paige's unforced shorthand.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
The charming story about millennial confusion is deftly written by Susanna Fogel (who also directs) and Joni Lefkowitz, and the dialog actually sounds like the way a pair of smart and funny twentysomethings might really talk.