Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Box Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  This movie kept me involved and intrigued, and for that I'm grateful. I'm beginning to wonder whether, in some situations, absurdity might not be a strength.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  Sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious, a serious work that insists on its own seriousness even when it edges toward the preposterous.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Variety

  Kelly's trademark mix of sci-fi, surrealism and suburbia occasionally entertains.

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• 42

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  It's no coincidence that The Box plays like the world's murkiest Twilight Zone episode. It's loosely based on ''Button, Button,'' a short story by Richard Matheson, who wrote some of the series' greatest scripts.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  An artistic fiasco that cuts across genre lines and all logic to become, perhaps, an instant midnight movie.

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• 38

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  The characters in The Box are like cardboard cutouts: Some have "foolish victim" labeled on them, and others fall into the category of absurdly creepy villain.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey

  What the plot doesn't decimate, the film's slower-than-a-clogged-drain pacing does. Sadly, this is one box that's just not worth picking up off the porch, much less opening, not even for a million dollars.

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