It’s inventive and atmospheric, just not entirely coherent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2022

If you are going to see one post-apocalyptic, low-tech French-Lithuanian-Belgian film in English this year with Eddie Marsan as the heavy, make sure it’s this one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2022

A dramatically uneven but imaginatively vivid feat of post-apocalyptic world-building that flips the script on so many other stories like it.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 30, 2022

For a small indie sci-fi movie, the special effects are stunning, and the world is incredibly well-realized.

| Sep 30, 2022

Vesper commands viewers’ attention because of its exceptionally well-realized costume, sound, and production design, as well as some well-utilized, Cronenberg-icky creature and special effects.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2022

The movie isn’t exactly a rosy portrait of the world to come; but it has a warm, bright spark of hope.

| Sep 30, 2022

Vesper paints a dark future with flair enough to give audiences hope, both for a world gone to seed, and for indie filmmaking.

| Sep 30, 2022

It's stunning in its look and texture and bold and original in its storytelling vision.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 29, 2022

Under the muck and mire, Vesper is a reminder that both life and hope can be surprisingly durable, flexible, and morphable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2022

Vesper appears to have been made with a limited budget, but that only makes its tableaus and fancies more impressive. Ms. Buozyte, Mr. Samper and their effects team keep pausing to savor the marvelous beauty of a genetically haywire environment.

| Sep 29, 2022

A wistful beauty and a delicately imaginative sense of craft set “Vesper” apart from most post-apocalyptic stories.

| Sep 29, 2022

Something wholly unique — at once modern and timeless, nostalgic for a genre only just created, already pining for images freshly cast up on screen.

| Aug 10, 2022

“Vesper” is a sci-fi film fascinated by earthly survival, not sleek, state-of-the-art spectacle — though it often dazzles just the same.

| Jul 4, 2022

The major draw of “Vesper,” however, is the imaginative world building by Buozyte and Samper.

| Jul 3, 2022