1. A daughter of the aristocracy and her opportunistic servant play out their combat as a claustrophobic fever dream. 2. A sloppy fever dream of a play, it has only muted flickers of the Williams wit and almost none of his poetic grace. 3. Buddha Bar is a fever dream of tropical elegance, its dense, opium-inspired interior rich with exotic woods, betasseled chandeliers and lush fabrics. 4. But none captures as grandly and fully the fever dream the Vietnam War became. 5. But this fever dream of a magazine and its flood of factoids deliberately omits even a hint of musical analysis. 6. From pink margarine to green applesauce, blue macaroni to orange ketchup, food marketed to children is getting more colorful than the most vibrant Jell-O fever dream. 7. His movie is a cooled-out road trip, a deadpan comedy-cum-spiritual fever dream set in a frozen landscape. 8. It is a sexy, surrealistic fever dream that is, among other things, about dreams themselves, specifically the fantasies that Hollywood promotes and fabricates. 9. Leone later was to say that it was possible to interpret this final movie as the fever dream of one of its gangsters. 10. She is terrific when writing about the willful plans that sway like opium poppies in the fever dream of the typical novice gardener. |