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A humorless loner attempts to win the admiration of a drifter with his debut performance at the local comedy club.
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| Village VoiceNick SchagerIf Defa's aesthetics are mundane, his leads' performances are not, especially in the case of Audley, whose darting eyes and hushed, stuttering speech express confused longing with transfixing train-wreck magnetism. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMr. Defa and his cinematographer, Mike Gioulakis, are united in their disdain for information over mood: as the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation. |
| Slant MagazineCalum MarshIn Bad Fever, Dustin Guy Defa's sad-sack indie drama about loneliness and urban ennui, a stand-up routine becomes an outlet for personal pain, the stage a place to unload baggage. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesHeavy on the awkward silences and joggling, invasive close-ups. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibDustin Guy Defa's Bad Fever takes mumblecore to its reductio ad absurdum, featuring a hero whose utterances border on the unintelligible. |