It seems more occupied with delivering short term anxieties via separate sequences, like driving a car blind or two births occurring side by side, than refining the overall product to leave a lasting impact.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Bullock is the one that really shines here, she does an outstanding job and her performance made me realize how much I miss seeing her on-screen. She has a certain kind of charisma and presence...

| Original Score: B+ | May 9, 2024

Bird Box toes the line. It holds your attention. It lets your imagination run wild, and sparks a ticker of running questions while you're engrossed with what's happening on screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2023

There's a lot to like about Bier's direction, though some of screenwriter Heisserer's adaptation choices don't always work. Thankfully Bullock and the mass death sequence are great, even if the film essentially has to do a soft reboot afterwards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2023

“Bird Box” runs the gambit from riveting to predictable to kinda silly. At the same time it’s never boring and the performances are always worth watching.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

...it's perennial Every-gal Bullock who ultimately is the VIP...

| Oct 26, 2021

To survive, they live in a world without sight of the outside world. That premise inevitably invites comparison to A Quiet Place. In Bird Box, the concept does not work nearly as well.

| Oct 26, 2021

I love Susanne Bier's movies for their conscious humanity, and that's the quality that separates this from many similar movies about the end of the world and the collapse of civilization.

| Oct 26, 2021

...the denouement of Bird Box has a particularly intriguing twist.

| Oct 26, 2021

The taut pacing and overall tension keep you invested.

| Oct 26, 2021

Susanne Bier is a filmmaker with an innate ability to mine the painful truths of the human experience.

| Oct 26, 2021

Silly un-scary mash-up of ten things better things before it

| Jul 2, 2021

More than anything, this is a display of what movie stars can do. Bullock's time bomb performance, always tamping down the scream she clearly wants to let out, is riveting. The film she gifts it to is not much to see.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

I'm not gonna lie this film actually left me in tears, it was beautiful, it was strong, and it was direct and that ending. Wow.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 18, 2020

The acting really sells the premise, chiefly from Bullock, imparting a striking sincerity that prevents the sci-fi/horror elements from being frivolous.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 5, 2020

With an extremely interesting premise, Bird Box becomes a meaningless film filled with disappointing moments. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 30, 2020

...Bird Box does give visual and dramatic life to a fairly widespread conviction at present in certain upper middle class circles, in Hollywood and elsewhere...

| Aug 5, 2020

While it's no 4-star instant classic like "A Quiet Place," which did it first and did it better, far be it from me to nitpick a viral hit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2020

Bird Box is as horrific as it is captivating...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2020

Should have been called "Bird-brained."

| Sep 12, 2019