Bug (2007) Critic Reviews

A triumph for Judd and the director.Read the full review

Begins as an ominous rumble of unease, and builds to a shriek. The last 20 minutes are searingly intense: A paranoid personality finds its mate, and they race each other into madness.Read the full review

Engrossingly manic version of Tracy Letts's great stage play.Read the full review

The enjoyably icky heart of Bug is still contained within the airless, increasingly ''bug-proofed'' room that becomes Agnes and Peter's whole world.Read the full review

Friedkin's latest rivals his Druid horror flick "The Guardian" for sheer lunacy--Bug remains disconcerting, real, and raw. It poignantly suggests that some lost souls would rather be crazy and doomed than alone.Read the full review

With his (Friedkin) vigorous camera compositions and a talented cast, he manages to straddle a wickedly fine line between taught portrayal of paranoia and parody of paranoia.Read the full review

It's unapologetically theatrical.Read the full review

We find ourselves in the fascinating no man's land between horror and comedy -- right where this movie wants us to be.Read the full review

The escalating hysteria and grisly set pieces of Bug may strain credulity, but Ms. Judd has never been more believable as a woman condemned to attract the wrong kind of man.Read the full review