In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.
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.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
25 May 2007
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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?
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
25 May 2007
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A film of excruciating intensity, a psychodrama that infects the imagination.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
25 May 2007
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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.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
29 May 2007
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Friedkin's ability to ratchet up the tension without losing sight of the play's human element goes a long way. He's delivered a properly paranoid love story for a very paranoid age.