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Buried Reviews
... you will be so caught up in the movie that its surprisingly abrupt ending will leave you with your mouth agape.
| Original Score: A | Sep 9, 2017
A nifty gimmick rarely translates into satisfying cinema, but Buried qualifies as an exception.
| Jun 20, 2013
Conveys the intensity and introspective horror of its subject's extreme life-or-death circumstances far more authentically and grippingly than the similar, flashier and shallower 127 Hours.
| Original Score: B | Apr 14, 2011
Buried may well be an allegory for the fates of so many Americans waylaid in sandier climes, but it works first and foremost as an experiential horror film -- the best of its kind in some time.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2011
If the aim is to be unpredictable and to revel in cynicism, you run the risk -- realized here -- that the movie becomes more an authorial statement of purpose than a story the audience can believe in.
| Jan 5, 2011
Whatever the reasons that draw us to the movies, spending 90 minutes trapped in a box with Ryan Reynolds isn't one of them.
Full Review | Oct 8, 2010
Somewhere, Edgar Allan Poe is uncorking a bottle of Amontillado and laughing himself silly.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2010
Sometimes Cortes gets carried away with his "angry little film criticizing the world", but hell, when youre stuck making a movie in a box, its easy to see why youd want to stand up, raise your arms and yell as loud as possible.
| Original Score: 85/100 | Oct 8, 2010
Rodrigo Cortes directs and Chris Sparling wrote the screenplay. They and Reynolds should be applauded. But you wonder who on earth is going to submit themselves to a film that is set exclusively in a coffin.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2010
Buried is also one of the most visually inventive, deftly edited films of the year.
| Oct 5, 2010
The tension keeps building, right to the end. Proving yet again that in movies, even though the space may get smaller, the picture doesn't have to.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2010
There's something faintly quixotic about a filmmaker who, faced with technical limitations in a script, chooses to embrace them rather than fight them. Such is the case with Buried, an uncompromising suspense thriller from Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2010
The suspense is gripping, even when the substance isn't.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2010
An experiment in limitation that, at least until the movie's deflating final payoff, manages to tap into our deepest anxieties.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2010
By the end, I was quietly wheezing and whinnying with distress.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2010
It may sound like a gimmicky premise, but Buried is as far outside the box as a buried-alive movie can be.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2010
Reynolds's default has always been a sarcasm that's locked him out of seeming entirely human. In Buried, he's neutralized.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2010
A brutally intense indie that commits to its bleak premise and doesn't back down. Tarantino will cackle as he watches.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2010
This is a solid, unsettling, at times very entertaining thriller -- but the jury's still out on Reynolds.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2010
Plausibility sits cowed in a corner. It says, "Don't look at me. I have nothing to do with this."
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2010