The last two years, Lucy and Adrian have in vain tried to get pregnant. They contact a fertility doctor, an old mentor of Adrian. After the treatment, Lucy gets pregnant with triplets. To avoid complications at birth, she has to choose either keep the twin boys or the girl. The doctor recommends keeping the boys and Adrian agrees. Lucy decides on the girl. Can the doctor be trusted? Anxiety sets in.... (Full plot summary below)
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The last two years, Lucy and Adrian have in vain tried to get pregnant. They contact a fertility doctor, an old mentor of Adrian. After the treatment, Lucy gets pregnant with triplets. To avoid complications at birth, she has to choose either keep the twin boys or the girl. The doctor recommends keeping the boys and Adrian agrees. Lucy decides on the girl. Can the doctor be trusted? Anxiety sets in.
Leave your thoughts about False Positive.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperWith Ilana Glazer leading an outstanding cast, False Positive is not a movie you can easily shake off in a day or two. Or three. |
| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonWhile False Positive has lapses in logic and could have a quicker pace in the second half, it fully embraces a bizarre sense of the macabre that is irresistible. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyDirector Lee, who co-wrote the screenplay with Glazer and was a frequent Broad City collaborator, doesn’t quite sustain that bold stylistic stamp, even if the perturbing intimacy and insidious angles of the visuals go a long way toward masking the uneven tone. |
| Screen DailyNikki BaughanA sharp screenplay and strong performances give this life as a watchable thriller, rather than just a mere pastiche. |
| The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe climax is entertaining and crazy but not necessarily as satisfying as it hopes to be. Still, for all its flaws and inability to deliver in the end, False Positive is a captivating take on the misrepresentation of the pregnancy “glow.” |
| The A.V. ClubKatie RifeGlazer and Lee both work primarily in comedy, but the commentary here is drier and more serious, producing knowing nods instead of outright laughter. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekIt’s a moderately effective horror movie with a much better, creepier and more nuanced one nestled invisibly alongside, the unborn twin ghost of a movie that might have been. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLee (who directed episodes of “Broad City”) and Glazer swerve from comedy to horror, using the genre as a vehicle for social commentary about modern motherhood, misogyny and manipulation. False Positive is Glazer’s “Get Out,” which is a phrase you want to scream at her character, Lucy, over and over again. |
| SlashfilmHoai-Tran BuiThere’s something here, beneath the glassy-eyed performances and the Instagram aesthetics, about class and privilege and the evils of men — and you could even make a case for False Positive being yet another effective display of gaslighting as horror — but any actual messages are too vague to parse. |
| Film ThreatAlan NgThough I may not have connected with the final product as intended, if the idea of a psychological thriller about pregnancy appeals to you, then the movie might be your cup of tea. |
