Cameron Diaz,
James Marsden,
Frank Langella,
James Rebhorn,
Holmes Osborne
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Screen siren Cameron Diaz and former X-Man James Marsden star in the supernatural horror picture The Box (2008), directed by Donnie Darko cult fave Richard Kelly. The film's premise involves a strange... read more
Directed by: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Keywords:
suspense,
cult,
weird,
sci-fi,
thriller,
horror,
scary,
odd,
strange,
different,
confusing,
same,
unusual,
cameron diaz,
donnie darko,
twilight zone,
richard kelly,
Cameron Diaz ,
Donnie Darko ,
Twilight Zone ,
Richard Kelly
DVD Release Date: February 23, 2010
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April 30, 201227/07/2011 (DVD)
Bewildered at first! The bewildered weirdness kicks but and for was very puzzling. Sometimes I felt like "what the heck is going on?" And then I would settle down to see the strange results produced from the unexplainable theories that in the end all mad... read more -
September 24, 2011fb729949618Weak. It started off okay, but drastically fell off from there.
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September 2, 2011It surprises me how such great premises become such failures. The Box had a great opening, but it soon became very boring and stupid, but still a good opening. The acting was ok, Cameron and James had good performances but everyone was just stupid. The special effects were kin... read more
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August 2, 2011fb100000040220993I'm not really sure what this movie was suppose to accomplish, and I don't think the writer did either. It's not entertaining horror, it's not interesting sci-fi, and the suspense is poorly executed. The only thing the film achieves is making a contrived mess. Things start off... read more
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June 23, 2011Really confusing and the plot seemed to lose it's way. It all just didn't seem to make sense and seemed very silly. Extremely unrealistic which isn't always the point but with this it was just laughable.
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May 24, 2011A mysterious stranger delivers a box to the doorstep of a young couple and tells them that if they push the button on the device contained within, they will receive a million dollars but someone they don't know will be killed. This intriguing premise combined with a spooky perfor... read more
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May 5, 2011A good thriller, not quite what I was expecting. It's a strange film in many ways that leaves you wondering at times, even towards the end what is going on and why. Thankfully most of it is explained but there was just a bit of doubt in my mind about what was really happening. St... read more
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December 23, 2010This Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) flick's main flaw (sitting atop a bunch of many other little flaws, like awful visual effects and high doses of camp and cheese) is its drastic and unpleasant change from psychological thriller to alien invasion film. The Box, even at its climax,... read more
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November 29, 2010This could have been a lot better....If they just kept it simple. Cause the beginning and the end is really good....But the middle part with the guy being struck by lightning and coming back to life...and all that supernatural stuff (I can't really remember)...that was just too m... read more
Critic Reviews
September 24, 2011
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
May 6, 2011
Laremy Legel, Film.com
Is it an odd film? Certainly. Will it creep you out more than it engages you? Probably. Should we be rewarding folks who are willing to step out of bounds and make us think? Definitely. Full Review
November 12, 2009
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer
Whatever you do, do not accept delivery of The Box, a package that doesn't know where it is going nor how to get there.
November 11, 2009
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Kelly has talent, but for his next movie, he might try coming down to earth and forgetting about the people who control the lightning. Full Review
November 9, 2009
Michael Phillips, At the Movies
I think Kelly is a very inventive writer and I think he is his own worst enemy behind the camera. Full Review
November 9, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
I think that Richard Kelly, from one film to the next, has gone in some very interesting and sometimes puzzling directions. Full Review
November 9, 2009
David Denby, New Yorker
Kelly, as he did in Donnie Darko, avoids obvious scare techniques. Instead, he makes the bizarre, the surreal, and the frightening emerge from normal reality. Full Review
November 6, 2009
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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. Full Review
November 6, 2009
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious. Full Review
November 6, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
If you make a preposterous movie that isn't boring, I count that as some kind of a triumph. Full Review
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