TIME Magazine
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0
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By Mary F. Pols
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Feb 25, 2011
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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.
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Phoenix Movie Examiner
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8
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By Joseph Airdo
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Jan 18, 2011
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In the psychological thriller 'Buried,' director Rodrigo Cortes amazes audiences with what the film medium is capable of.It is just a shame that Chris Sparling's screenplay has so many superficially aggravating elements....
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Orlando Movie Examiner
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4
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By Christopher Crespo
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Oct 10, 2010
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What do you call Ryan Reynolds stuck in a box for ninety minutes? Director Rodrigo Cortés calls it Buried, and it’s a one-man, one-locale thriller featuring the Reynolds buried alive in a tiny little wooden coffin, and his desperate attempts to secure his release with the aid of a cell phone. It’s tense and well made and almost makes for a great movie....
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Associated Press
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0
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By Jake Coyle
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Oct 09, 2010
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Whatever the reasons that draw us to the movies, spending 90 minutes trapped in a box with Ryan Reynolds isn't one of them.
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Toronto Star
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8
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By Peter Howell
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Oct 08, 2010
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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.
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Orlando Sentinel
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8
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By Roger Moore
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Oct 06, 2010
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You have to remind yourself to breathe.
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Globe and Mail
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8
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By Rick Groen
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Oct 01, 2010
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The suspense is gripping, even when the substance isn't.
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Washington Post
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6
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By Ann Hornaday
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Oct 01, 2010
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An experiment in limitation that, at least until the movie's deflating final payoff, manages to tap into our deepest anxieties.
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Newark Star-Ledger
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8
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By Stephen Whitty
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Oct 01, 2010
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At its best, Buried is a filmmaker's fondest double-dare challenge. And at its very best, it's considerably more.
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Boston Globe
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5
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By Wesley Morris
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Oct 01, 2010
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Reynolds's default has always been a sarcasm that's locked him out of seeming entirely human. In Buried, he's neutralized.
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New York Times
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5
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By Stephen Holden
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Sep 28, 2010
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Either Mr. Reynolds was directed to rant and rave, or his bellowing tantrums are meant to signal that Paul is a childish fool who isn't very bright.
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Rolling Stone
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5
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By Peter Travers
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Sep 27, 2010
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Ninety minutes of being buried alive with Ryan Reynolds: Didn't we all suffer that in The Proposal?
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ReelViews
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9
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By James Berardinelli
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Sep 24, 2010
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In the same way it's impossible to turn away from a grisly accident, taking your eyes away from Ryan Reynolds' hypnotizing performance is not an option.
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New York Post
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6
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By Kyle Smith
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Sep 24, 2010
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On a technical level Buried is impressive, at times blisteringly suspenseful, making the most of a ripping score and Reynolds' fully charged agony...
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AV Club
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7
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By Noel Murray
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Sep 23, 2010
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Reynolds is terrific, and Cortés and Sparling overlay a preposterous premise with familiar modern complaints.
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Hollywood.com
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6
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By Peter Hall
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Sep 23, 2010
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This film's opening alone is more terrifying than the entirety of most horror movies.
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Village Voice
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0
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By Karina Longworth
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Sep 23, 2010
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Rodrigo Cortes keeps the action bound to the box, limiting his lighting to naturalistic approximations, so that much of Reynolds's performance consists of him grunting and heaving in the dark.
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Hollywood Reporter
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By James Greenberg
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Sep 23, 2010
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A horror film set in Iraq is a cinematic tour de force but raises serious questions about its ethics.
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Entertainment Weekly
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6
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
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Sep 23, 2010
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Rodrigo Cortés, the Spanish filmmaker behind this diabolical, Hitchcock-influenced narrative stunt, makes merry mischief with camera angles and lighting; the viewer feels suffocated along with Reynolds...
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New York Observer
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8
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By Rex Reed
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Sep 23, 2010
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Nothing this underrated actor has done previously measures up to the emotional diversity, focus and self-control required of him in a one-man exercise in underground suspense that Alfred Hitchcock would envy.
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Chicago Tribune
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9
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By Michael Phillips
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Sep 23, 2010
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This is shrewdly considered and edited genre work, spiced -- bitterly -- with the right variety of complication.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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9
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By Roger Ebert
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Sep 23, 2010
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Although the entire movie takes place in the enclosed space, director Rodrigo Cortes and writer Chris Sparling are ingenious in creating more plausible action than you would expect possible.
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Chicago Reader
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0
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By Andrea Gronvall
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Sep 23, 2010
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As a cautionary tale about the perils of nation building, this is both creepy and provocative, but director Rodrigo Cortés blows it in the last few minutes with a rushed ending that feels like a cheat after all the escalating tension.
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Access Hollywood
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8
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By Scott A. Mantz
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Sep 20, 2010
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A brilliantly twisted suspense thriller that would have made Alfred Hitchcock proud.
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ColeSmithey.com
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By Cole Smithey
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Sep 20, 2010
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Easily the worst film of 2010...
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NewsBlaze
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By Prairie Miller
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Sep 20, 2010
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Reynolds takes suffering for your art to unimaginable new depths in this truly underground chiller. As he excels at reaching into the theater and grabbing viewer minds. Which gives a radically new meaning to the notion of being embedded in a war zone.
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Compuserve
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7
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By Harvey S. Karten
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Sep 20, 2010
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94 minutes (in real time) of slow suffocation makes for an unusual entertainment.
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FilmsInReview.com
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By Victoria Alexander
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Sep 20, 2010
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Claustrophobic horror.
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sbs.com.au
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By Simon Foster
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Sep 20, 2010
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As Hollywood continues to expand its bloated visions and forsakes the very tenements of basic storytelling, Rodrigo Cortés and Ryan Reynolds go just about as small as film can go and yet deliver a vastly entertaining cinema experience.
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Reel Film Reviews
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10
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By David Nusair
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Sep 20, 2010
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A remarkable, frequently spellbinding achievement...
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Little White Lies
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By Anton Bitel
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Sep 20, 2010
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So much more than its high-concept premise might suggest, Cortéz?s film is a bravura one-off whose simple-seeming title resonates hauntingly in the dark.
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Variety
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8
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By Rob Nelson
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Sep 20, 2010
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In purely cinematic terms, Buried, set in late 2006, is an ingenious exercise in sustained tension that would make Alfred Hitchcock turn over in his grave.
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Slant Magazine
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6
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By Ed Gonzalez
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Sep 20, 2010
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A bratty but canny thriller that takes a very simple premise and runs much farther with it than any right-minded director should have been able to.
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