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Bird Box

Bird Box

2018

Susanne Bier

Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson ...

5.7

21,632

Fantasy. Thriller. Horror. Drama Post-apocalyptic thriller set in the near future, where single mother Malorie Hayes (Sandra Bullock) and her two young children are among the survivors after supernatural creatures drive a large swathe of the Earth's population to bloody violence, sparked by simply looking at one of the creatures. Facing a perilous 20 mile journey on a small rowing boat while blindfolded, the family will have to rely on her wits and her children's trained ears. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] is only partly successful (...) The haunting, hypnotic, palm-sweating score by Reznor and Ross promises way more than the film delivers.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"Susanne Bier's inventive drama is a welcome addition to the post-apocalyptic canon (...) Denying your characters one of their senses makes for incredibly tense moments"	POS
United States	Yolanda Machado The Wrap	"[It] offers both an interesting take on the end of the world and riveting, emotional insights on survival, parenthood, and humanity itself."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"An inexplicably bland ensemble that even a talented cast can’t render interesting."	NEG
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"It is a gripping, intense and character-focused melodrama (...) The picture is anchored by a conventionally terrific Sandra Bullock star turn"	POS
United States	Aisha Harris The New York Times	"The horse-related theme is severely undercooked (...) Too often 'Bird Box' walks right up to the edge of pure suspense and disappoints"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The film does succeed in building a feeling of oppressive claustrophobia and a last stand mentality (...) This is deep-dish popular material that feels shortchanged in terms of suspense, scares and thrills"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Undercooked metaphors about motherhood and a mishandled climax aside, there’s enough to like in Susanne Bier’s 'Bird Box' (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Brad Miska Bloody Disgusting	"[It] isn’t awful, but it is pretty bland.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Amy Nicholson The Guardian	"A disappointingly clunky waste of a star-studded cast (...) These characters feel so crammed together and underwritten that they add up to almost nothing (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A familiar dystopian thriller somewhat redeemed by Sandra Bullock’s emotional performance (...) [It is] bleak but also sluggish, never fully fleshing out the themes at the story’s core."	NEU

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