William Friedkin's adaptation of Tracy Letts' play features stunning performances by Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon, disorienting editing, and a truly tragic, albeit inevitable, ending.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2024

Despite an unevenness to the story and the fact that it lends more to a psychological drama than horror, there is an overall darkness to BUG that shouldn't be missed.

| Nov 7, 2019

Relationships, even if they feel like deep love, are sometimes entirely geared towards the annihilation of one singular self rather than the elevation of two whole selves.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 3, 2019

An intelligent and complex peek in to the darkness of mental illness and its tendency to destroy and explode violently.

| Oct 10, 2017

This "smaller" experiment turns out to be William Friedkin's best film in over 20 years.

| Aug 28, 2015

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 9, 2011

Claustrophobic paranoia provides the squishy center of Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play, Friedkin swims in it

| Aug 27, 2009

While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2008

Letts' story is ultimately an extreme cautionary tale about how a little bit of passion can make you do magnificently fucked-up things.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2008

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...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2007

It starts off like a horror film, or like a modern-day Tennessee Williams piece and then transmutes into ... something very different indeed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2007

The dialogue raises the odd snigger and the final act is perhaps a little too barmy, but a committed cast and an experienced director make this a tense and effectively claustrophobic experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2007

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| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 28, 2007

An exemplary character-driven chamber drama like we don't see much of in America.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 12, 2007

A freakishly metaphorical look at the self-destructive implications of paranoia gone awry.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2007

Friedkin's best film in at least two decades.

| Original Score: B | Jun 25, 2007

Bug is more cerebral than visceral so those expecting a more traditional chiller may be disappointed. But for those interested in a creepy character study, this Bug has bite.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Overly metaphorical but at least uncompromising -- a surefire crowd-nonpleaser.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2007