... even with 25 extra years’ worth of life experience that includes becoming a parent, the ambiguity of the ending in terms of whether it’s right or wrong continues to hang in the air as potent as ever.

| Jan 19, 2025

The film at times feels like an assembly of images that strives primarily for visceral impact, throwing cohesiveness to the wind.

| Jan 3, 2025

The Cell is a beautiful picture, which, should the viewer opt to disconnect themselves from its run-of-the-mill formula, will bring a sense of wonderment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

The nightmarish visuals are undeniably effective but nothing else in the film manages to match the atmospheric experience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2023

Tarsem Singh's vision in The Cell is unparalleled. It's a truly stunning and gnarly piece of work.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

I, myself, was both impressed and appalled by the film. And I thought, "If this filmmaker can ever put his extravagant visual sense to good use within a real story, he will really have something to offer."

| Mar 4, 2020

"The Cell" is not for everyone, but some will find it a portal to some extraordinary sights.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2019

It's eye candy, all right, but lacks any nutritional value.

| Apr 1, 2019

A must-see for fans of dark psychological thrillers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2019

Jazzy photography and fancy design in no way compensate for a dull, suspense-free screenplay and unwise casting.

| Apr 1, 2019

Even if "The Cell" doesn't stand up to deep examination, it's nevertheless a strongly engrossing thriller that delivers ample chills and thrills with its hellish, Hieronymus Bosch-like images alone.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2019

The Cell is Hollywood at its most meretricious.

| Apr 1, 2019

"The Cell" looks spectacular. If only it never opened its mouth.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2019

Ultimately, the reliance on a dream world tends to reduce suspense and even narrative logic. Thus, everything is possible and nothing is necessary.

| Apr 1, 2019

This is not your father's sci-fi thriller.

| Apr 1, 2019

The stylised sections occasionally sit uncomfortably within the generic thriller framework. That said, this remains an often dazzling showcase for his imagination.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2019

The story's not clever or scary so much as it is unpleasant and grisly with scenes of stabbings, an evisceration, and other such lovely excesses.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 1, 2019

The Cell is pretty silly. But I admired its cinematic ambition until the final scenes.

| Apr 1, 2019

The summer's silliest cinematic experience has to be The Cell, ostensibly a slightly futuristic serial killer movie but, subtextually, a commercial for the Saatchi collection.

| Apr 1, 2019

Like [anyone's] imagination, the movie's landscape is littered with half-remembered pop artifacts... what's different is that Tarsem, a commercial and video director here making his feature debut, sticks the protagonists in a garden of unearthly delights.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2019