Vesper
IFC Films | Release Date: September 30, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The Film StageJared MobarakSep 28, 2022
The film zooms in to project humanity’s struggle onto Vesper. With one gust of wind (and some tragic losses), health and prosperity can be hers (and ours) again. Read full review
82
PolygonTasha RobinsonSep 26, 2022
Dystopian sci-fi has rarely been as delicately and beautifully detailed as Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s new film. Read full review
80
The GuardianLeslie FelperinOct 21, 2022
Vesper plays like a cult film waiting to be discovered. It adeptly fuses a compelling YA-friendly story about a teenage girl’s survival in a hostile environment with dense, thoughtful world-building, the sort required to draw in nerdy-minded viewers. That savvy combination creates a narrative that breathes and expands, like one of the freaky mycelium-like life forms that populate the story. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsSep 30, 2022
Vesper doesn’t just ask viewers to root for one more hopeless case as she struggles to triumph over adverse living conditions. Instead, it asks us to spend time with a young protagonist who thinks she’s on the verge of a breakthrough and leads us to constantly worry that she might be wrong. Read full review
75
ColliderMaggie LovittSep 28, 2022
At its core, Vesper feels like a dark fairytale, like something born from the haunted tales of Grimms' Fairy Tales. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 27, 2022
The story’s arc may feel familiar, but it isn’t utterly predictable, with the child’s enterprise and cunning nicely matched against Marsan’s I’m Bigger Than You omnipotence. And the messaging of “Vesper” leaves this bleak tale a little room to breathe and anyone watching it the tiniest prayer of hope. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithSep 29, 2022
The dystopian sci-fi drama Vesper is a gallery of astounding images set in a weirdly enticing future. The new world it depicts is both primitive and advanced, full of richly detailed flora and fauna representing strange new species that came about after mankind experimented heavily with genetic engineering as society crumbled to dust. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldSep 29, 2022
A wistful beauty and a delicately imaginative sense of craft set Vesper apart from most post-apocalyptic stories. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 29, 2022
By the time this highly evocative work of low-budget sci-fi arrives at its eye-opening final scene, the clearest takeaway is that our only hope for survival has been coded into us since the beginning of time. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerSep 29, 2022
Under the muck and mire, Vesper is a reminder that both life and hope can be surprisingly durable, flexible, and morphable. Read full review
60
CineVueChristopher MachellOct 27, 2022
Vesper is throughout a gripping post-apocalypse fable. Despite its mythological derivations, Buozyte and Samper’s world, grounded in blood, mud and viscera, is often uncomfortably close to our own. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurraySep 30, 2022
Vesper is on the arty side of science-fiction, more focused on character and setting than in plot-driven thrills. Read full review
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