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Disappointing resolution aside, Bug uses its claustrophobic setting and cinéma vérité camerawork to tense, impressive effect.
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It starts off like a horror film, or like a modern-day Tennessee Williams piece and then transmutes into ... something very different indeed. Nov 17, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It starts off like a horror film, or like a modern-day Tennessee Williams piece and then transmutes into ... something very different indeed.
Peter Bradshaw
Beat by beat, Bug is gripping: It has that feverish compression of great theater, but director William Friedkin gets inside it, so it's never stagy. May 29, 2007
Beat by beat, Bug is gripping: It has that feverish compression of great theater, but director William Friedkin gets inside it, so it's never stagy.
Richard Roeper
This is a movie about the dangers of letting love rob you of your reason and cut you off from the world, and, bugs in the bloodstream or not, who hasn't been there? May 25, 2007 | Full Review…
This is a movie about the dangers of letting love rob you of your reason and cut you off from the world, and, bugs in the bloodstream or not, who hasn't been there?
Dana Stevens
Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon (who reprises his stage persona) never allow us to categorize the main characters as one-dimensional nut jobs but two emotionally fractured souls who retreat into paranoid delusion. May 25, 2007 | Full Review…
Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon (who reprises his stage persona) never allow us to categorize the main characters as one-dimensional nut jobs but two emotionally fractured souls who retreat into paranoid delusion.
Desson Thomson
Bug won't get under your skin as much as it will assault you with its ghastly claustrophobic drama and over-the-top performances. May 25, 2007 | Rating: 2/4
Bug won't get under your skin as much as it will assault you with its ghastly claustrophobic drama and over-the-top performances.
Claudia Puig
The cheesy soundtrack and the lacklustre acting undermine [director Friedkin's] efforts at turning an intelligent play into a scary movie. May 25, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The cheesy soundtrack and the lacklustre acting undermine [director Friedkin's] efforts at turning an intelligent play into a scary movie.
Susan Walker
Despite an unevenness to the story and the fact that it lends more to a psychological drama than horror, there is an overall darkness to BUG that shouldn't be missed. Nov 6, 2019 | Full Review…
Despite an unevenness to the story and the fact that it lends more to a psychological drama than horror, there is an overall darkness to BUG that shouldn't be missed.
Debbie Lynn Elias
Relationships, even if they feel like deep love, are sometimes entirely geared towards the annihilation of one singular self rather than the elevation of two whole selves. May 2, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Relationships, even if they feel like deep love, are sometimes entirely geared towards the annihilation of one singular self rather than the elevation of two whole selves.
C.H. Newell
An intelligent and complex peek in to the darkness of mental illness and its tendency to destroy and explode violently. Oct 10, 2017 | Full Review…
An intelligent and complex peek in to the darkness of mental illness and its tendency to destroy and explode violently.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
This "smaller" experiment turns out to be William Friedkin's best film in over 20 years. Aug 28, 2015 | Full Review…
This "smaller" experiment turns out to be William Friedkin's best film in over 20 years.
Scott Weinberg
Claustrophobic paranoia provides the squishy center of Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play, Friedkin swims in it Aug 27, 2009 | Full Review…
Claustrophobic paranoia provides the squishy center of Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play, Friedkin swims in it
Fernando F. Croce
While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year. May 2, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year.
Brian Holcomb
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