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An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation. (R, 102 min.)
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Staff Picks 2026 @ Moxie Cinema
Every month a member of the Moxie staff picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen. The Staff Picks series is Free for Members.
October's pick was made by Darrell Bartlett.
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. Probing the blurry lines between paranoia and nightmarish reality, Liongate Films BUG is an intense, mind-bending psychological thriller in which nothing is quite as it seems. Directed by Academy Award® winner William Friedkin (THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THE EXORCIST) and adapted by Tracy Letts from his hit off-Broadway play, BUG stars Golden Globe nominee Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins, Brian O'Byrne and Michael Shannon. [Liongate Films]
Starring: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.
Director: William Friedkin
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Horror
"Ashley Judd gives the kind of fearless, raw performance that you only see a few times a year."
— Brian Tallerico, UGO
"William Friedkin's latest film, Bug, begins as an ominous rumble of unease, and builds to a shriek."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Bug goes exactly where it needs to go -- to a place most filmmakers don't dare go -- and gets there brilliantly."
— Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"A tour de force of acting and directing in this spellbinding exercise from director William Friedkin, back in his old form."
— Frank Lovece, Film Journal International
"It starts off like a horror film, or like a modern-day Tennessee Williams piece and then transmutes into ... something very different indeed."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"As in The Exorcist, Friedkin establishes a tone of hard-edged, almost documentary-style realism before ratcheting up the horror to nearly unbearable levels."
— Nathan Shafer, AV Club
"Bug, directed by William Friedkin from Tracy Letts's play, has the feverish compression of live theater and the moody expansiveness of film. The mix is insanely powerful."
— David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
