The Box
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: November 6, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
10
Negative:
6
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38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The characters in The Box are like cardboard cutouts: Some have "foolish victim" labeled on them, and others fall into the category of absurdly creepy villain. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The pacing throughout is languid. Your eye becomes fixated on the hideous 70s wallpaper behind them. If only the story's interstellar narrative developments had the intensity of that wallpaper. Rod Serling might've gotten a great hour out of it (the story, that is, not the wallpaper). It simply is not two hours' worth, no matter how many quantum leaps into the unknown Kelly takes. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
What the plot doesn't decimate, the film's slower-than-a-clogged-drain pacing does. Sadly, this is one box that's just not worth picking up off the porch, much less opening, not even for a million dollars. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
The new Richard Kelly movie is basically a sock of coal for Christmas. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
After a slightly promising start, this great-looking but ultimately deeply confusing and unscary sci-fi/horror opus turns into a quite boring rehash of M. Night Shyamalan's post-"Signs" films. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The Box is its own kind of awful, a disconnected mess that never finds its reason for being. Read full review
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