Joe Lipsett
Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network
Jan 15, 2026
2.5/5
Caitlin Cronenberg's debut has promise, but winds up lacking in execution. The intriguing premise is letdown by defanged satire and an early death is a grievous error. There's just not quite enough here
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Cameron Ritter
Geek Vibes Nation
Jul 20, 2025
5.5/10
Humane is a steady, if uninspiring, debut from Caitlin Cronenberg that has a lot to offer visually and an interesting world set up around the main story but doesn’t quite put many of the other pieces together.
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John Daniel Tangalin
The Cinema Spot
Jul 18, 2025
4/5
Caitlin Cronenberg and Michael Sparaga almost satirize the modern world as we know it. What makes it a horror film lies in the horror of truth, which is that more people are dying than one would come to realize.
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Samantha Schuster
Cinéfilo Serial
Jul 18, 2025
4/5
A film that blends earthly horror with a family drama to explore the consequences of climate change and the role societies play in its development. A critique of human misery with an atmosphere filled with tension and surprise. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Whang Yee Ling
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Jun 23, 2025
3/5
This is Caitlin Cronenberg’s feature debut. It shows in the lack of both dramatic depth and visual flair, but the sociopolitical satire on class and privilege is blackly comic.
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Beth Accomando
KPBS.org
Dec 19, 2024
"Humane" is a superbly crafted and precisely ratcheted film that refuses to fit neatly into any box.
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David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
Dec 16, 2024
2.5/4
Humane‘s overall impact is adversely affected by a wheel-spinning midsection and final third emphasizing the characters’ less-than-enthralling cat-and-mouse exploits...
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Dennis Harvey
48 Hills
Jul 29, 2024
An offbeat misfire...
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John Anderson
Wall Street Journal
Jul 25, 2024
Hardcore horror fans will get their dose of mayhem from Humane, though in its modest, tidily organized fashion the film might also get under the skin.
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Jonathan DeHaan
Nightmare on Film Street
Jul 23, 2024
7/10
Humane is a tight debut from Caitlin Cronenberg, and a delicate balancing act of humor and horrifying ideas. A modern science-fiction thriller that you can't help but get sucked into immediately.
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Rocco T. Thompson
Daily Dead
Jul 2, 2024
3/5
Though the finale feels a bit too neat and tidy, the film’s grim humor functions like a balm when the questions it raises get too real.
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Lee Jutton
Film Inquiry
Jun 2, 2024
A timely horror satire chock full of gore and guffaws, Humane entertains in spite of its flaws.
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Karlie Rogers
Exclaim!
May 15, 2024
6/10
The film's social relevance provides a fascinating conversation-starter that encourages audiences to think about their own privileges and biases.
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Shaina Weatherhead
Collider
May 14, 2024
7/10
It's a fun, bloody reminder not only of how far people will go to save themselves, but to always bring pepper spray to an unexpected family dinner.
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Andy Klein
FilmWeek (LAist)
May 10, 2024
It really does get funny, and manages to work out the plot without ticking us off by the end.
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Anne Brodie
What She Said
May 10, 2024
2/4
All hell breaks loose - a bloody, savage, ugly horror scene, captured close up by writer-director Caitlin Cronenberg, horror meister David Cronenberg’s daughter, who writes a good script. But in the end, it is unrelenting horror, a bloodbath.
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Nicholas Bell
Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)
May 9, 2024
2/5
Despite its laudable foray into the moral turpitude of elitism, Human always sticks to the obvious, aiming for satire but settling on stale with a defanged pit of vacuous vipers.
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Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
May 8, 2024
3/4
A well-crafted discussion prompt that, for all its momentary shocks and pitch-black humor, leaves one with fascinating questions—not only about what you would do in this family and in this society, but how the film reflects and comments on our world.
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Sergio Burstein
Los Angeles Times
May 7, 2024
Beyond the lack of subtlety of the message and the lack of depth of the characters, Cronenberg manages to make the proceedings entertaining and handles the actions well within this unique environment. [Full review in Spanish]
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Courtney Small
That Shelf
May 6, 2024
As the film unravels, and the bloodlust overshadows the complicated family dynamics, it becomes evident that there is just not enough dimension to the York siblings for one to care either way what happens to them.
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