Horror connoisseurs might be disappointed about the deliberate pace and reliance on erotic and psychological tension to supply the thrills, but this sneaky and surreal genre film isn't interested in textbook horror tactics.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2021

Lllosa's sensually shot film takes the story of a mother facing strange danger and casts a spell that feels like being dropped into the character's mind.

| Oct 13, 2021

There's an oppressive malevolence to Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's adaptation of Samanta Schweblin's novel that seeps through Fever Dream like a slow-acting poison.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2021

The whole thing is a bit bonkers but very beautiful too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2021

Llosa, a filmmaker with an affinity for the unexplainable, mines acute observations on the apprehensions of motherhood from Samanta Schweblin's novel, designing a serpentine narrative teeming with impending doom for all participants.

| Oct 7, 2021

A horror movie that begins with discomfort and slowly evolves into full-blown dread.

| Oct 6, 2021

The more "Fever Dream" tries to ground its story in explanations and earnest environmental panic, the more irretrievably it spirals into silliness, bordering on incoherence...

| Sep 27, 2021

For all of its relative lucidity, Llosa's "Fever Dream" burns with the madness of loving someone too much to let them go.

| Original Score: B | Sep 23, 2021

Terror and beauty have been onscreen partners many times. But in Fever Dream, a film that lives up to its name, their connection is inextricable and eerie, shaped and propelled by an uncanny sense of emergency.

| Sep 21, 2021