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Part musical, part character study and part crime saga, this fatally uneven drama, about a damaged soul who finds comfort only in his canine companions, brings together Besson’s most extreme tendencies without the inspired feverishness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024

He added that the most frequent confirmed side effect is injection site soreness, with other side effects like muscle pain and feverishness occurring less often.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2022

There was a feverishness to the way women were telling them — as if it had just occurred to them how lonely they’d felt.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018

It’s an exercise in feverishness and fretfulness, in urgency and appetite, a sweet and simpleminded leave-taking of the senses in the pursuit of, well, a lot.

From Time • Feb. 6, 2014

True classics in their devotion to form and freedom from the feverishness of the later men headed by Richard Strauss—why should any one seek to better them, to supplant them?

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James