Slick thriller.
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12/31/08
Fear X (2003)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:18
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.8/10
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... [More]
Starring: John Turturro, Deborah Unger, James Remar, Jacqueline Ramel
Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
Reviews for Fear X
A Middle American psychological crime thriller agreat portion of which plays out none too rationally inside its protagonist's head.
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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04/01/06
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01/26/06
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12/06/05
Top CriticFrustratingly opaque by design, Fear X offers viewers insufficient fear and excessive "X."
08/04/05
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02/06/05
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
Top CriticIt'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
This X doesn't mark the spot.
01/28/05
Top CriticA pretentious, unsatisfying and ultra-slow-moving thriller.
01/28/05
Fortunately, Turturro's subtle turn keeps our emotional connection solid even when the story skates on thin ice.
01/28/05
The story, in the end, is less than satisfying and, unfortunately, doesn't match the movie's eerie style.
01/28/05
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
Top CriticGrimly 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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