Burial's script contains some interesting elements, but the film never manages to truly rise to the occasion as either a horror movie or a war story.

| Jan 3, 2023

A muddled sort of horror pic set as a WWII B-movie period piece thriller about Hitler's corpse.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 28, 2022

Burial is... atmospheric, with something thematically potent lurking in its sylvan half-light.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2022

It almost feels like Parker had originally set out to make a horror movie — not that Hitler isn't already one of history's greatest monsters — but ended up toning down those elements for a more generic war drama with some supernatural elements.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2022

Balance is everything for a film of this size, and Burial never quite finds it.

| Sep 15, 2022

It’s all of the questions and threats of fear that make Burial an intense and often unpredictable film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2022

It feels a little self-congratulatory without ever having to question or challenge any of the characters’ world views. It also paints an uncomfortably heroic image of Russians

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 13, 2022

Clean narrative lines, top-notch production design, great acting, and Hollywood-grade cinematography and lighting elevate “Burial” above what might have been a forgettable schlock-fest.

| Original Score: B | Sep 9, 2022

I thought this was a nice action film with good shoot-em-up scenes and generally engaging all the way through.

| Sep 9, 2022

Infighting over the purpose of this detail as well as a group of German soldiers, intent on retrieving their Fuhrer's remains, provide the conflict of this at times plodding, muddled movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 8, 2022

Burial may be a standard-brand war film, but it’s an extremely dumb horror item.

| Sep 8, 2022

“Burial” does have a fair share of suspenseful moments but it never takes full advantage of its premise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2022

A tantalizing prologue gives way to a borderline insulting bait-and-switch, leading to a movie with half-baked ideas and a tedious execution.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2022

A tense and compelling World War II thriller and a leisurely shoot-‘em-up made all the more unsettling by its deliberate pace, interesting ideas and timely sociopolitical parallels.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2022

WWII action-thriller has swearing, violence, sexual threat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2022

A solid, focused WWII thriller.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 3, 2022

As the latest example of historical fiction told through a horror template, this low-budget thriller pairs a compelling setup with a mediocre payoff.

| Sep 2, 2022

A moderately fun B-flick masquerading as an “elevated” genre piece, it doesn’t quite bury itself but never quite finds its footing either.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 2, 2022

Burial has a hard enough core, both in terms of its central premise and its pulpy tropes, that for about 30 minutes, it almost works as a decent B-movie, right before it unceremoniously falls apart.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2022

Vega’s solid performance anchors and mostly dominates the testosterone-heavy cast quite effectively, and raises the movie above its somewhat predictable foundation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2022