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.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
First-person POV quickly gets old as the bodies stack and the story loses steam.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Hardcore Henry never aspires to rise above its one gimmick.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A gonzo Russian action-flick shot entirely in first-person perspective. About as coherent as it sounds, but highly inventive and bloody great fun.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
You could go see "Hardcore Henry" - or you could gulp down a pint of vodka, load in "Grand Theft Auto," then strap the TV to your face and throw yourself down the stairs.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Director Ilya Naishuller has said that he originally thought a 90-minute feature using the same technique was a bad idea, based on little more than a gimmick. It turns out he was right, but that won't matter to certain audiences.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Hardcore Henry doesn't just get under your skin, it gets behind your eyeballs and uses your head as its own cockpit. For hardcore thrills, Henry is your guy.

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
While its audacity is laudable, the film ultimately has all the thrill of watching someone else play a first-person-shooter video game.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's all about the ride, the relentless wallop and whoosh. But, hey, sometimes that's all a cine-junkie needs for a fix.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
For the first time ever, a movie has actually done it. "Hardcore Henry" has precisely replicated the experience of watching someone else play a video game.

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : New York Times
Its dour eccentricity gives Hardcore Henry a potency above and beyond that of standard-issue show-off action fare. That doesn't mean it's not still obnoxious, though.

Name : Dennis Harvey / Alias : Variety
Only the tiniest, most basic elements of character, backstory and even narrative are offered on the run in a movie whose 95% frantic-action composition has no need or breathing space for more.

Name : Will Leitch / Alias : The New Republic
A great movie fools you into thinking it's really happening. By trying to make us a part of the film itself, Hardcore Henry just keeps reminding us it's not.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
Is it much of a movie? Not really. It's more of an experience - a passive sort of virtual reality - that uses a bare-bones narrative as a vehicle for a big-time body count.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
The relentless action flick Hardcore Henry is totally nuts and a lot of fun for freaks.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
If one can accept the story's video-game logic and cope with the kinetosis, "Hardcore" is often exhilaratingly extreme.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
I'm sure a lot of people will call Hardcore Henry "innovative" and "groundbreaking." And maybe it is. But it also feels more like a cool gimmick than a movie-and that gimmick gets old pretty fast.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
A dim beacon in the darkening night of action features, signaling a path to plot-free oblivion.

Name : Stephen Garrett / Alias : New York Observer
[Naishuller's] debut feature is a landmark of sorts, and a potent omen in this year of mass-marketed virtual reality.

Name : Dave White / Alias : TheWrap
Their collective trip to hell is death tourism for the viewer; its sole, genuine feeling the one of relief that comes when it's over.

Name : Stephen Dalton / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Billed as the first-ever action movie filmed entirely from the hero's first-person viewpoint, Hardcore blasts along like a supercharged computer-game shoot-em-up, bursting with sick humor and splatterpunk violence.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
If action movies are meant to be stunning, Hardcore Henry can proudly take its place among the giants. Even better, it lets you stand with them.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Hardcore Henry is nauseating, twice over.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
The story exists mainly to provide reason and shape for the frenzy of carnage: constant, numbing, and in the film's view at least, occasionally funny.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
It is pummeling. It is punishing. It is nauseating and headache-inducing.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
When the action is at its sharpest, such as with Henry's mid-chase leap from a detonating truck onto the back of a motorcycle, it's spectacular. Other times, it can be as wearying as generically hyper-edited Hollywood fare.

Name : Bruce Diones / Alias : New Yorker
This first-person-shooter extravaganza has little purpose besides showing what happens when a GoPro is strapped to a series of stuntmen as they run through their repertoire of extraordinary action moves.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Too stuck in the swamp of empty machismo to be anything more than the feature equivalent of a soar-and-crash overdose.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
For about 90 seconds, the novel first-person-shooter point of view hits our bodies with an unexpected flood of adrenaline, in a heart-pounding rush. Trouble is, the chemical high doesn't last.