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(1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1   "If movies were only about acting, 'Bug' would win a high recommendation from me. Unfortunately, it contains too much talk and too little action."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 4/5 "While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year."   CinemaBlend.com   Brian Holcomb C+ "Bug is unique in its priorities; a quality Lionsgate should've been eager to celebrate rather than keep away from online press and accurate promotion."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf B+ "William Friedkin ratchets up suspense and terror to an almost unbearable level with his adaptation of Tracy Letts' award-winning 2004 Off-Broadway play "Bug""   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Whether Aggie is herself a product of particular horrors%u2014whether she's watched too much television, absorbed her own lost child into herself, or believes terrorists mean to invade Oklahoma the very second they get their chance%u2014 remains unknown."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "Before it completely goes off the rails in its final 20 minutes, Bug generally comes off as a slow-moving yet exceedingly well-acted drama..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "By the second act it has a case of diarrhea of the mouth."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/5 "A nice textbook on how to use the camera in a confined space."   Film Threat   Don R. Lewis 5/10 "Melodramati%u010Dni, isforsirani i predvidljivi zavr%u0161etak"   Index.hr   Dragan Antulov 2.5/4 "Dishonestly marketed but fascinatingly macabre...Bug is about creepy-crawlies as much as Magnolia is about frogs and The Squid and the Whale is about sea creatures."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 3/4 "Whatever has gotten into Friedkin, let's hope it stays in there."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "If you can be absorbed in it the way Friedkin intended, you'll find yourself suitably disturbed by the horrific and inevitable conclusion."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Claustrophobic paranoia provides the squishy center of Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play, Friedkin swims in it"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B "Though the characters in it might not actually have bugs under their skin, Friedkin's creepy film will certainly get under yours, for good or ill."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "After a well-constructed first act, the story becomes a little tiresome and repetitive and the characters, who are will defined to begin with, stray ever closer to the edge of overwrought one-dimensionality."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "a claustrophobic thriller that slowly and methodically peels away layers of normality until we are trapped in a contagious delusion made frightening literal"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 1/5 "A staggering miscalculation."   Filmcritic.com   Jay Antani 2.5/4 "Both Judd and Shannon reach into the void to draw out raw performances that are alternately gripping and ridiculously extreme."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth C+ "...one of those failed experiments that still merits attention, if for no other reason than to see Judd pull herself away from those awful cop thrillers costarring Morgan Freeman to actually act again."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "A deeply disturbing, claustrophobic look at psychological trauma."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C "Bug straddles the lines of genre seediness and high art pretension, but it's not enough of a cheap thrill or mindbender to succeed at either."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Where Bug succeeds, it does so by inducing in you the same kind of on-edge, constant low-level of terror Agnes lives with on a daily basis, the kind of ordinary distress with modern living that afflicts way too many people."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B "Friedkin's best film in at least two decades."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3.5/5 "A remarkably involving film--compelling and revolting in equal measure."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "This material badly wants to be searing and disturbing, but it's all too obviously conceived as showboat material for actors, with little room for subtlety."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "A freakishly metaphorical look at the self-destructive implications of paranoia gone awry."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C "A stagey, talky movie that shares a couple of deadly weaknesses with some other movies based on plays."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 4/5 "This "smaller" experiment turns out to be William Friedkin's best film in over 20 years."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 2/10 "Reprehensible, repugnant, pretentious poppycock!"   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 8/10 "An exemplary character-driven chamber drama like we don't see much of in America."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 30) of 30 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1