Fear X (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 17 Rotten:14 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Theatrical Release: Jan 28, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Grief-stricken Harry Cain (John Turturro, BARTON FINK) works as a security guard in the Wisconsin mall where his pregnant wife, Kate (Deborah Kara Unger, LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG), was recently shot to death in an apparently unmotivated crime. By night he meticulously culls hours of the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: John Turturro, Deborah Unger, James Remar, Jacqueline Ramel, Stephen McIntyre
Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
Screenwriter: Hubert Selby, Jr., Nicholas Winding Refn
Producer: Henrik Danstrup
Screenwriter: Hubert Selby, Jr., Nicholas Winding Refn
Producer: Henrik Danstrup
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A Middle American psychological crime thriller agreat portion of which plays out none too rationally inside its protagonist's head.
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03/23/07
What happens afterwards, in Refn and the late Hubert Selby, Jr.'s can't-resist-obscurity-and-ambiguity screenplay will disappoint most filmgoers.
03/01/07
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01/26/06
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Frustratingly opaque by design, Fear X offers viewers insufficient fear and excessive "X."
08/04/05
Imagine an hour of birds flying backwards and rooms with red curtains, and there’s the rest of your movie.
02/03/05
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02/02/05
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It's a fundamentally Scandinavian movie, a hyperintense meditation on death and destiny set amid a bleak wintry landscape and played out by the emotionally devastated.
02/02/05
As the film builds, director Refn skillfully allows Harry to get both closer and farther away form his goal, like an optical illusion.
02/01/05
Turturro's clammy, lumpen Cain is a profoundly disagreeable guide down the rabbit hole of hallucinatory paranoia.
01/28/05
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Fortunately, Turturro's subtle turn keeps our emotional connection solid even when the story skates on thin ice.
01/28/05
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The story, in the end, is less than satisfying and, unfortunately, doesn't match the movie's eerie style.
01/28/05
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Fear X, like an impressionistic painting, is evocative in original ways.
01/27/05
With an elliptical style and open-ended interpretations, it is definitely not for those who like their mysteries spelled out and tied up neatly.
01/27/05
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Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through Fear X like a toxic mist.
01/27/05
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This thriller is ingeniously woven with motifs suggesting the difficulty of seeing and understanding truth, and substitutes psychological chills for commonplace gore.
01/27/05
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