The Box is a thought-provoking thriller that focuses on the exploitative regimes that leave a devastating result, and a young boy’s desire to find a father figure.

| Sep 8, 2023

It's a solid and well-acted drama that can hold viewers' interest, even when the movie drags on for a little too long, and a family secret is too easy to predict before it's revealed.

| Mar 16, 2023

The Box uses an identity crisis to excavate the skeletons in Mexican capitalism’s close -what the movie asks is, who put them there and why?

| Dec 24, 2022

We can't help the feelings of rage and indignation upon seeing Hatzin's compliant attitude with the implicit violence, which, although it's not shown, is present at all times [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: B | Dec 18, 2022

Lorenzo Vigas has notable artistic intuition for directing actors. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 28, 2022

“The Box” weaves some of the greatest horrors of modern Mexican life into an unsettlingly cryptic thriller.

| Nov 10, 2022

While the slow pacing and lean storytelling will be compelling to certain audiences, others will use the same characteristics as reasons they do not care for the film. Understated performances allow for maximum emotional impact.

| Nov 10, 2022

The film slides effortlessly from mystery to criminal story to quasi-Greek tragedy, changing registers with subtle alterations of tone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2022

An engrossing, lean and tender emotional journey.

| Nov 3, 2022

It simply feels like everything insists on its artfulness without providing much of anything original or actually thought-provoking.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 3, 2022

The film, as piercing as an internal scream of despair, warrants a response to the darkest realities of Mexico, tackling a sensitive theme through a brainy story punctuated with some surprises.

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

It effectively shows the ways that corruption and poor choices can build upon each other until, before you know it, you're in too deep, and it's hard to see the way out.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 11, 2022

Lorenzo Vigas continues his critical take on father figures and the broader implications of paternal absence in this subtle coming-of-age story anchored by the exceptional presence of its young lead.

| Feb 26, 2022

Vigass straightforward narrative provides just enough bouts of tension to illustrate how a broken system justifies itself to seemingly moral men.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2022

Those who've seen Vigas' debut know that he's quite skilled at examining enigmatic and complicated relationships between an older and a younger man and unflinching about the transactional nature of so many relationships.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 2, 2021

Although it packs suspense and many questions in its interior, the film doesn't manage to fully explore its interesting and urgent social themes. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2021

The premise piqued my interest, it starts strong with the protagonist diverting into his own journey after insisting his father is alive. But it never truly reaches a level of complexity nor tonally increases the stakes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 9, 2021

The Box is not flawless, at times a little drab, but Vigas places his finger squarely on a vital matter.

| Oct 6, 2021

Despite suffering from an instinct for the unsubtle, The Box is ultimately economical, and brilliantly simple in its premise.

| Sep 29, 2021

The young boy's story is sad but I never emotionally connected with him or what he was going through.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 14, 2021