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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

They are rehearsing a short Tennessee Williams play whose feverishness reflects Eduardo’s approach to life — swashbuckling, peacockish, omnivorous.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

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

The feverishness of those days extends to geopolitics.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2019

The same symptoms, with feverishness, would probably mean commencing serious illness, necessitating skilled advice; but without rise of temperature are not important, unless they resist treatment and continue for longer than about twelve hours.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie