70
Metascore
12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakThe film zooms in to project humanity’s struggle onto Vesper. With one gust of wind (and some tragic losses), health and prosperity can be hers (and ours) again.
- 82PolygonTasha RobinsonPolygonTasha RobinsonDystopian sci-fi has rarely been as delicately and beautifully detailed as Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s new film.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe story’s arc may feel familiar, but it isn’t utterly predictable, with the child’s enterprise and cunning nicely matched against Marsan’s I’m Bigger Than You omnipotence. And the messaging of “Vesper” leaves this bleak tale a little room to breathe and anyone watching it the tiniest prayer of hope.
- 75ColliderMaggie LovittColliderMaggie LovittAt its core, Vesper feels like a dark fairytale, like something born from the haunted tales of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
- 75RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsVesper doesn’t just ask viewers to root for one more hopeless case as she struggles to triumph over adverse living conditions. Instead, it asks us to spend time with a young protagonist who thinks she’s on the verge of a breakthrough and leads us to constantly worry that she might be wrong.
- 70The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldA wistful beauty and a delicately imaginative sense of craft set Vesper apart from most post-apocalyptic stories.
- 70Wall Street JournalKyle SmithWall Street JournalKyle SmithThe dystopian sci-fi drama Vesper is a gallery of astounding images set in a weirdly enticing future. The new world it depicts is both primitive and advanced, full of richly detailed flora and fauna representing strange new species that came about after mankind experimented heavily with genetic engineering as society crumbled to dust.
- 67Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAustin ChronicleRichard WhittakerUnder the muck and mire, Vesper is a reminder that both life and hope can be surprisingly durable, flexible, and morphable.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichBy the time this highly evocative work of low-budget sci-fi arrives at its eye-opening final scene, the clearest takeaway is that our only hope for survival has been coded into us since the beginning of time.
- 60Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayVesper is on the arty side of science-fiction, more focused on character and setting than in plot-driven thrills.