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Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100CineVueChristopher MachellCineVueChristopher MachellThe magical realms of Justino’s stories are echoed in the real world, where spaces are enclosed but liminal, defined by uneasy boundaries that are easily breached.
- 91The Film StageLeonardo GoiThe Film StageLeonardo GoiThis is an entrancing film, orphaned by an unspeakable longing for a place–a whole world–that will never return.
- 90The New York TimesDevika GirishThe New York TimesDevika GirishBy showing us the world through Justino’s searching gaze, Da-Rin gives us an elusive but powerful sense of the limits of our own vision.
- 80Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarLos Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarSubtly sensorial more than conventionally narrative, The Fever inhabits an ethereal plane that centers Indigenous beliefs and cultural practices not as primitive but valid modes of engagement.
- 78Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiAustin ChronicleJosh KupeckiThe natural world and the industrialized world are at odds once again. But it is to Da-Rin’s talent as a filmmaker that her political and ideological intent never overshadow this deceptively simple and astute tale of a sick man yearning for his home, and finally hearing the call of the wild.
- 75Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownIn the film, Manaus is a place of irreconcilable tension between the lush natural world and the cold, metallic world of industrial modernity.
- 75RogerEbert.comRoxana HadadiRogerEbert.comRoxana HadadiWhen progress stops feeling like progress is what Da-Rin captures in The Fever, and fantastic lead actor Regis Myrupu is a conduit for a calamity that builds and builds.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe Fever is a calm and quiet and subtle film, a little inert perhaps, but deeply engaged with the hidden lives of Brazil’s indigenous people. There is poetry in it.