Fear X

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

This thriller is ingeniously woven with motifs suggesting the difficulty of seeing and understanding truth, and substitutes psychological chills for commonplace gore.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

The movie is so glacially paced and underdeveloped that it often feels as numb as its grieving hero.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Barely credible, but in the hands of the film's dedicated minimalists, "barely" is enough, and they turn the precious little they have to work with into a plus.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

A pretentious, unsatisfying and ultra-slow-moving thriller.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Turturro's sweaty, lumpen Cain is a profoundly disagreeable guide down the rabbit hole of hallucinatory paranoia.

Film Threat by Merle Bertrand

A tedious, snail-paced mess.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

Perhaps a radical re-editing of Fear X-like Lynch did on “Mulholland Drive”-could rescue the film's workaday unease from the dread taboo of derivative weirdness. It's half a movie, but a half that hums.

L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas

Turturro keeps Fear X fascinating, practically in spite of itself.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through Fear X like a toxic mist.