Buried (2010)

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Buried, despite its seemingly impossible premise, is by turns funny, suspenseful, moving and -- in one heart-stopping sequence worthy of Indiana Jones -- incredibly exciting.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

Top Critic

Buried may be claustrophobic in scale, but its impact is immense.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

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.

January 5, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Mary F. Pols

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Whatever the reasons that draw us to the movies, spending 90 minutes trapped in a box with Ryan Reynolds isn't one of them.

October 8, 2010 | Comments (19)

Jake Coyle

Associated Press

Top Critic

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.

October 5, 2010 Full Review

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

The suspense is gripping, even when the substance isn't.

October 1, 2010 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Remind yourself to breathe.

January 28, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

Movie Nation

With little more than one actor, a mobile phone, a (very full) Zippo and a few disembodied voices, director Rodrigo Cortés has created a 95-minute panic-attack-made-movie.

October 10, 2012 Full Review

Matt Glasby

Total Film

Reynolds and Cortés deserve credit for their ambition and Buried is a tense but enjoyable experience for anyone interested in the core 'buried alive' concept.

October 5, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

Director Rodrigo Cortes continually achieves the seemingly impossible.

July 23, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

(...) Como ejercicio narrativo bastante claustrofóbico y moderadamente angustiante, tiene su atractivo. Gran parte del resultado es mérito del actor Ryan Reynolds.

August 25, 2011 Full Review

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

A brilliant genre thriller using space and perspective to confine us with the protagonist.

August 15, 2011 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

This experiment in minimalist filmmaking succeeds in part because of the tight, controlled performance by one of People magazine's sexiest men (buried) alive!

July 8, 2011 Full Review

David N. Butterworth

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Conveys the intensity and introspective horror of its subject's extreme life-or-death circumstances far more authentically and grippingly than the similar, flashier and shallower 127 Hours.

April 14, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Buried may well be an allegory for the fates of so many Americans waylaid in sandier climes, but it works first and foremost as an experiential horror film -- the best of its kind in some time.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Adam Nayman

eye WEEKLY

Reynolds is riveting, and it's possible to appreciate Cortés's bravura cinematic accomplishment. But that'll come much later, after you catch your breath.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Norman Wilner

NOW Toronto

It's kind of like if Saw were a one-man show in a tiny theater.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

While its central conceit - its six-feet-under micro-location - might seem gimmicky, it's a gimmick that would get real tired real quick if not for an exceptional script and one hell of a performance.

March 24, 2011 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Rodrigo Cortés's film is rigidly grim and relentlessly discomforting - thanks to superior sound design, creatively claustrophobic camerawork and a one-man-show from Ryan Reynolds, who leaves no room for sarcasm in this sarcophagus.

March 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

The genius of this film is that it never once betrays its concept.

February 1, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

• 1. Paul Conroy: It's wierd knowing.
  – Submitted by Jennifer R (12 months ago)
• 1. Jabir: American, breath no breath?
  – Submitted by Mayank F (14 months ago)
• 1. Paul Conroy: Yea, you're a terrorist you son of a bitch!
  2. Jabir: You terrified, so I'm terrorist.
  – Submitted by Diana L (16 months ago)
• 1. Paul Conroy: The situation is in a coffin.
  – Submitted by Trenton L (17 months ago)
• 1. Paul Conroy: The guy says he wants five million dollors by 9:00 tonight.
  2. Rebecca Browning: Or else?
  3. Paul Conroy: Or else he'll take me to Seaworld, what the hell do you think lady?
  – Submitted by Samantha W (20 months ago)
• 1. Paul Conroy: It's over, isn't it?
  2. Dan Brenner: No! [long pause] Yeah.
  – Submitted by Virginia K (21 months ago)

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