Fear X
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Metascore
61 out of 100

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4.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

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  • Summary: This psychological thriller stars John Turturro as a security guard whose wife is murdered in the mall where he works.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    This thriller is ingeniously woven with motifs suggesting the difficulty of seeing and understanding truth, and substitutes psychological chills for commonplace gore.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    80
    A supremely elegant, meditative thriller.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    60
    Perhaps a radical re-editing of Fear X-like Lynch did on “Mulholland Drive”-could rescue the film's workaday unease from the dread taboo of derivative weirdness. It's half a movie, but a half that hums.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    A pretentious, unsatisfying and ultra-slow-moving thriller.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. RegOz
    2
    The beginning of the movie was promising. I expected and intelligent plot with a los of psychological twists. Unfortunately, it wasn't what I thought it would. It is a pretentious movie with no major substance, if people are still talking about it,questioning themselves, and trying to find the 'real' meaning of the movie, they shouldn't because this movie is not The Machinist. The plot here is much more basic but the producers are trying to make us believe there is a 'smart plot' and that there is 'much more' to the eye, but at the end is it just pointless. Slow, unenganging, boring. It is sad to say that because I did think the movie had potential! I ended up truly disappointed. I wouldn't recommend it at all. The best thing of this movie are the performances. The ending: Bad...apparently the director(check online, for it is true) said that he just didn't know how to end it so he didn't work on it and that is why he left it like that ! So, there it goes... according to the director the ending meant nothing but what it was...so I think the movie probably didn't mean much either! Period!...… Expand

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