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.
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Denmark, Canada, United Kingdom · 2003
Rated PG-13 · 1h 31m
Director Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Eric McIntyre, William Allen Young
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Harry's pregnant wife is shot dead in the parking garage where he works. Though the police have decided it was a random incident, Harry is not convinced. He becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery of her death, setting out on a paranoia-fueled journey that leads him to a surreal, freezing Montana.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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