at the Fantasia Festival on July 20, 2014. It was released to video on demand in April 2015. Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 29% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 4.85/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or generally average reviews". Peter Debruge of Variety compared it to the work of H.G. Wells, who he said "would surely approve of this suburban mad-scientist tale". John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter described it as a "thoughtful, intimate film [that] works both as sci-fi and family drama". Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "The Reconstruction of William Zero has its own identity problem, essentially, being a solid sci-fi story with a welcome emotional component, yet never fully effective at either." Kurt Halfyard of Twitch Film compared it to Another Earth and called it "more vexing than cathartic". Matt Boiselle of Dread Central rated it 2/5 stars and called it "sad and complex" but "hard to swallow and possibly even harder to digest." Noel Murray of The Dissolve rated it 2.5/5 stars and called it "intermittently effective". Keith Uhlich of The A.V. Club rated it C− and wrote, "It's always easy to see what Bush and Byrne are aiming for with this timely piece of speculative fiction. But their execution is, with rare exception, weakly imitative at best and exasperatingly inept at worst." References External links 2014 films 2014 independent films 2010s science fiction drama films American independent films American science fiction drama films Films about cloning 2014 drama films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films