The viewer is torn between the admirable high-energy presentation and how incongruous it all seems when reflected upon as a whole.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2022

A Fantastic Fear Of Everything is a cockeyed and chewy treat for a Pegg-related vehicle that gleefully registers on the side of unsettling cheekiness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 11, 2018

The script is packed with humor only someone like Pegg could pull off.

| Oct 20, 2018

Mills and Hopewell have failed to recapture the surreal comedy that Pegg can do so well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

... an uneven script and uninspired direction.

| Oct 20, 2017

The noteworthy presence of Simon Pegg can't rescue this bizarre and ultimately aimless mix of comedy and horror that's neither funny nor frightening.

| Mar 21, 2014

[A Fantastic Fear of Everything] leaps all over the place narratively and conceptually, servicing the comedy of every individual scene without considering or linking the others.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 13, 2014

For all its comic panache, A Fantastic Fear of Everything too often feels forced rather than funny - the strain evident in the setup is rarely worth the payoff, and the result simply proves exhausting.

| Feb 11, 2014

With such a promising theme and a funny lead actor like Simon Pegg, this movie should be a big hit. So what went wrong? I think the film just got out of control.

| Feb 8, 2014

A singularly bizarre new horror comedy, both exhilarating and frustrating: it allows for Pegg to stretch as an actor...leaving a great performance at the heart of a movie most won't particularly care for.

| Original Score: B | Feb 8, 2014

The effect eventually becomes that of about a dozen story pitches all strung together. Any one of them might have the potential for greatness in isolation. Try to mash them up into one movie, though, and much like Jack, they fall to pieces.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 6, 2014

Simon Pegg is a very talented comic actor, but you would never guess that in this claustrophobic, strained stream-of-consciousness, sinking cinematic showboat.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Feb 6, 2014

A Fantastic Fear Of Everything is more amusing than uproarious, and often not even that; it plays like a couple of over-extended sketches featuring the same thinly drawn character.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 6, 2014

Strands of Simon Pegg's amiable persona are found in the film's more tolerable bits, but even this seasoned vet's unique voice is lost amid the glut of references to other work.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 5, 2014

It's polarizing work that carries immense creativity and sharp sense of humor, burrowing into the spinning mind of a destructively phobic man during an intense period of suspicion.

| Original Score: B | Jan 2, 2014

This effortfully quirky pic refuses to settle for mere ineptitude, adding casual misogyny and pronounced racism to its rap sheet.

| Jun 12, 2012

Smart nods to Psycho, Kubrick and German expressionism suggest Mills has done his homework, which is perhaps to be expected from his lineage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2012

There is a watchable film hiding within this largely depressing, annoyingly repetitive audiovisual dirge.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 11, 2012

An embarrassing vehicle for its lead and the worst ad for Y-fronts in years.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 9, 2012

Something of a curate's egg, the film seems to be a little bit of everything and not enough of anything...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2012