Two things particularly stand out about Hanna Bergholm’s creepy horror feature Hatching: the emotional performance from Siiri Solalinna as a wide-eyed preteen under the thumb of a perfectionist ...

“Hatching,” a Finnish horror movie premiering at Sundance, has two monsters at the center of its story: a grotesque bird creature and a pushy gymnastics mom. Helmed by Hanna Bergholm in her ...

Hatching tells the tale of Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast working every bit as hard as her unnamed mother (Sophia Heikkilä) to make sure that their family’s channel of highly ...

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. This review of Hatching was ...

‘Hatching’ Review: Eerily Atmospheric Finnish Body-Horror Cracks Open a Tween Girl’s Concealed Grudges Reviewed online, Jan. 14, 2022. In Sundance Film Festival (Midnight). Running time: 86 MIN.