Fear X
Silver Nitrate Releasing | Release Date: January 28, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This thriller is ingeniously woven with motifs suggesting the difficulty of seeing and understanding truth, and substitutes psychological chills for commonplace gore. Read full review
80
VarietyScott Foundas
A supremely elegant, meditative thriller. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Turturro keeps Fear X fascinating, practically in spite of itself. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through Fear X like a toxic mist. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin 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. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The movie is so glacially paced and underdeveloped that it often feels as numb as its grieving hero. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMichael 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. Read full review
50
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
A tedious, snail-paced mess. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleJohn McMurtrie
Muddled. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Ultimately Fear X feels more like an intellectual exercise than a convincing drama. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Turturro's sweaty, lumpen Cain is a profoundly disagreeable guide down the rabbit hole of hallucinatory paranoia. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
A pretentious, unsatisfying and ultra-slow-moving thriller. Read full review
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