Despite the fact that this indie project lacked the financial resources of some of Hollywood’s big-budget post-apocalyptic, action-heavy films, the filmmakers exceed expectations in terms of world-building, stunning visual effects, and storytelling.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2023

It’s a fascinating film that discusses the reality and survival of the world through a much deeper lens with otherworldly visuals.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

Incredibly imaginative and empowering, this sci-fi tale with a memorable 13-year-old main character shows that intelligence and compassion are heroic qualities.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2023

Vesper is another movie depicting a bleak hellscape of a not-so-distant future, but the film contains some great performances, an original story, and shimmering visuals [to] keep things interesting all the way through.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2023

With its visual potency, commitment to pure sci-fi, and emotional warmth, Vesper is a film worth considering. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2023

Directors Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper compose a delicate, precise and extremely lyrical fable about disaster. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2023

A story of wonders and salvation. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2023

For something a bit different to your usual blockbuster sci-fi fare, try Vesper. It feels small, earthy, contained to a handful of locations, without the overdone pontificating grandeur.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2023

Chapman, who spends significant portions of Vesper on her own or with only Darius' drone prop for a scene partner, proves a worthy lead.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2023

The film's storyline is stretched thin at a few points, mostly because all of it takes place in this post-apocalyptic forest and they have to figure out how to give her something to do and local baddies to confront before she ventures out.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 30, 2022

The movie creates an astounding world to look at, and it smartly doesn’t try to explain every strange detail.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2022

There’s some very inventive special effects work -- both practical and CGI... Unfortunately, it appears that not quite as much attention and imagination was paid to the script as was given to the look of the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2022

It’s inventive and atmospheric, just not entirely coherent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2022

If you are going to see one post-apocalyptic, low-tech French-Lithuanian-Belgian film in English this year with Eddie Marsan as the heavy, make sure it’s this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2022

…tapping into current anxieties about genetic engineering, Vesper turns out to be an unexpectedly smart sci-fi drama…

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2022

Buozyte and Samper, along with their visual and special effects crew, create a rich and dazzling world not yet seen before

Full Review | Oct 12, 2022

“Vesper” is a transporting experience and a masterclass on immersive world-building, showing that you don’t need the deep pockets of a major studio to create an absorbing setting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 12, 2022

The world is beautifully realised by directors Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper. Splicing the organic with a sprinkle of magic.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2022

A wonder to look at, complemented by elegant performances, Vesper presents a haunting apocalyptic nightmare that is hard to pull away from.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2022

Even when the movie drags or the outcome of a scene is so obvious that you just want to get it over with, the film’s melancholy, allegorical ending is a satisfying payoff.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2022