A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Indomina Releasing | Release Date: February 7, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The PlaylistDrew TaylorFeb 7, 2014
At the very least, Fantastic Fear of Everything has a fantastic central performance. And sometimes that's enough. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly RichardsDec 13, 2013
It's always trying to do something unusual. It has a great lead in Pegg. What it doesn't have is an ending or a clear reason what it wants to be. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithDec 13, 2013
Fear falls short of fantastic yet it’s a decent effort that, like Pegg’s beard, proves to be something of a grower. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloFeb 5, 2014
The film’s whimsical specificity, random though it frequently seems, is the main thing it has going for it. Read full review
50
The DissolveTasha RobinsonFeb 6, 2014
Fantastic Fear leaps all over the place narratively and conceptually, servicing the comedy of every individual scene without considering or linking the others. Some of those individual scenes are marvelous, though. Read full review
40
Village VoiceCalum MarshFeb 11, 2014
For all its comic panache, A Fantastic Fear of Everything too often feels forced rather than funny — the strain evident in the setup is rarely worth the payoff, and the result simply proves exhausting. Read full review
40
NPRIan BuckwalterFeb 7, 2014
The effect eventually becomes that of about a dozen story pitches all strung together. Any one of them might have the potential for greatness in isolation. Try to mash them up into one movie, though, and much like Jack, they fall to pieces. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierFeb 6, 2014
There’s also little point and a garish quality that goes from pulp to junk fairly quickly, despite Pegg’s presence. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDrew HuntFeb 5, 2014
Strands of Simon Pegg's amiable persona are found in the film's more tolerable bits, but even this seasoned vet's unique voice is lost amid the glut of references to other work. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleFeb 8, 2014
The dreary, loud, amateurish horror-comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything...isn’t terribly interested in logic. Or continuity. Or filmmaking acumen. Or, most glaringly, laughs. Read full review
20
The GuardianXan BrooksDec 13, 2013
Crispian Mills's London-based horror-comedy is so spectacularly bungled that it leaves the viewer in a state of advanced petrification. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinDec 13, 2013
It is three parts The Mighty Boosh to two parts The Goon Show, which, when mixed with the quite astonishing lack of wit and finesse seen here, makes for pure cinematic strychnine. Read full review
20
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonDec 13, 2013
There’s not a single, solitary laugh to be had. Read full review
20
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 13, 2013
[A] stunningly joke-free comedy-horror hybrid. Read full review
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