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

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

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

Friedkin's best film in at least two decades.

| Original Score: B | Jun 25, 2007

Try as it may, Bug never really gets under your skin.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 7, 2007

Beat by beat, Bug is gripping: It has that feverish compression of great theater, but director William Friedkin gets inside it, so it's never stagy.

Full Review | May 29, 2007

This is a movie about the dangers of letting love rob you of your reason and cut you off from the world, and, bugs in the bloodstream or not, who hasn't been there?

| May 25, 2007

Ashley Judd gives the kind of fearless, raw performance that you only see a few times a year.

Full Review | May 25, 2007

Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon (who reprises his stage persona) never allow us to categorize the main characters as one-dimensional nut jobs but two emotionally fractured souls who retreat into paranoid delusion.

| May 25, 2007

Bug won't get under your skin as much as it will assault you with its ghastly claustrophobic drama and over-the-top performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 25, 2007

The cheesy soundtrack and the lacklustre acting undermine [director Friedkin's] efforts at turning an intelligent play into a scary movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 25, 2007

Bug may not be a big deal, but it is a sublime and remarkably disturbing small deal that pays and demands close attention.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2007

Bug goes exactly where it needs to go -- to a place most filmmakers don't dare go -- and gets there brilliantly.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 25, 2007

After nearly three decades of misfires, major and minor, William Friedkin, the creator of The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer, is back in true form with Bug.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2007

Bug buzzes around in random menace for an hour until its third act, when -- zzzzzt! -- it flies straight into the zapper.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 25, 2007

Bug, a tale of love, desperation and conspiratorial madness, comes off on the big screen as a wacky psychological snow job.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 25, 2007

Bug's relentless unpleasantness, which [director] Friedkin bogs us down in instead of crystallizing it into what might have been a stylish head trip, can get to be a chore.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 25, 2007

In all ways, Bug is a head-scratcher.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2007

It's one helluva movie that makes Ashley Judd look ugly and demented, while turning Harry Connick Jr. into the most frightening screen thug since Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2007