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(1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 48% Rotten Page   1   2/4 "The Box looks great and embraces themes I'll probably get after another viewing or five, but the story's base elements take a massive toll because of all the clutter."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 2/5 "A logically impaired, hyperbolic mess that darts from one high-concept idea to another as flowingly, and painfully, as someone with a bladder infection."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "all at once an engrossing genre piece, an exceptional exercise in expansive adaptation, and a complex moral allegory, so that this is a Box that requires a lot of unpacking - which of course makes it the gift that keeps on giving..."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel "Outlandish embellishments serve as annoying distractions to a perfectly good premise in this disappointing thriller."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 1.5/4 "Somebody get Richard Kelly a Katherine Heigl romantic comedy stat, or else we might have yet another talented filmmaker unable to wiggle free from his own cavernous pretension."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "as it was with Kelly's last film, the widely despised, decade-defining Southland Tales, The Box never allows you to get your hands completely around it"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin D "Riffing on a Twilight Zone-themed morality tale, writer/director Richard Kelly ("Donnie Darko") sets the table for a three-course meal of supernatural events but serves up an anemic narrative entree instead."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey C "This hokum might have been entertaining if Kelly could have somehow made this "Twilight Zone" material more credible."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Goes off on a bunch of wild, convoluted tangents that don't add up and grow sillier by the minute. By the time nosebleed epidemics, watery portals and NASA experiments are added into the mix, the picture has walked off a ledge it never recovers from."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B "Even with its occasional lapses into random weirdness, it remains watchable and engaging, often suspenseful, even creepy."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider A- "Some of Kelly's ambition is folly, but when he fails, he fails big. This is one of my favorite films of the year."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "While visually arresting and peculiar enough to hold your interest, in the end it proves to be pretty empty inside."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "An ethically rich drama about the mystery of not knowing, greed, responsibility, free will, and altruism."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat A "A parable about The Wars, about Americans' willingness to kill strangers in exchange for prosperity--as long as they don't have to get their own hands dirty, of course."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2.5/5 ""The Box" looks like a fairly nifty package of premise and paranoia until Kelly unpacks it, and a lot of both the fun and fear go out of the film as you feel it stumble towards the finish line and realize it's stuffed with recycled goods."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 1.5/5 "Sci-fi lovers should find it risible, and those who devalue the genre will have their biases confirmed."   Boxoffice Magazine   John P. McCarthy 4/5 "The Box is an enigma in modern Hollywood. I am actually pretty surprised it was allowed to make it through the system, though I am very happy that it did."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr "Richard Kelly's convoluted moral thriller gets off to a terrifically eerie start but collapses beneath the weight of its Big Ideas."   Horror Hacker   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "This is easily [Kelly's] most accessible movie, but it's also his least involving."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[T]he ambition of the movie makes it sort of intriguing, too, even if it fails -- spectacularly -- in the end..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/5 "Like in the better moments of Donnie Darko, Kelly serves up suspense and dread - until he moves into act three by sending his story into a nebulous orbit."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento 3/4 "A cool, philosophical mindfreak."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 3/4 "Though his narrative's morality-play suspense and Bernard Herrmann-esque score recall Hitchcock, Kelly seems to have selected the '70s so that he can fully channel early-years Steven Spielberg."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 "What seems on the surface to be just another hacky sellout from a once-interesting filmmaker on the commercial skids is actually one of the most genuinely freaky and fascinating films of the year."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 5/5 "The best thing about the movie is that, if Kelly was really aiming to please the average popcorn-munchers, he fails. He can't help it."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 3.5/5 "As a dark, strange and enjoyably paranoid little sci-fi thriller, I'd say the good points outweigh the bad by a long shot."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 3/10 "Never has Richard Matheson's visionary work been so badly served! This is foolish, maudlin, confusing, pretentious poppycock."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "Impales itself on the smug awareness of how stuffed full of extraordinarily twisty ideas it is, without bothering to make sure that those ideas add up to anything halfway worthwhile."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 4/5 "It's far from perfect, but Kelly has created my favorite kind of science fiction: thoughtful and creepy."   DVDTalk.com   Tyler Foster 0/4 "What The Box resembles most, in fact, is a distended episode of "The Simpsons"' annual Halloween special."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 48% Rotten Page   1