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

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

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

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 : 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 : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Writer-director Rodrigo Sepulveda suggests a personal explanation for her quest late in the game, but too late and too half-heartedly to rescue this morose Chilean drama from its own sanctimony.