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Cube (1997)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 34
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This low-budget science-fiction drama, winner of a 1997 Toronto Film Festival prize for "Best Canadian First Feature," depicts the plight of a group of people clad in prison-style uniforms and trapped in futuristic cube-like metal cells. Their memories are hazy; no one can recall how they got there. Alderson (Julian Richings) awakens in a cell, seeks an exit, and arrives in an adjacent cube where he's sliced and diced. Former cop Quentin (Maurice Dean-Wint) becomes the group leader, and he's

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror

Directed By: Vincenzo Natali

Written By: Andre Bijelic, Vincenzo Natali, Graeme Manson

In Theaters: Sep 11, 1998 Wide

On DVD: Apr 15, 2003

Trimark Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Cube

All Critics (41) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (14) | DVD (21)

Cube was named best Canadian debut feature at Toronto last year, and there's no questioning Natali, clearly a visionary, is an important new talent.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

If you have an innate fear of being trapped in an elevator, either alone or with a group of panicky, talky people, you'll appreciate the kind of tension that Vincenzo Natali tries to work up in his sci-fi thriller, Cube.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Top Critic

Surprisingly gripping.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Anita Gates

New York Times

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If writer-director Vincenzo Natali, storyboard artist for Keanu Reeve's Johnny Mnemonic, were as comfortable with dialogue and dramatizing characters as he is with images, this first feature of his might have worked better.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Bob Graham

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

The lack of information, the strange Jack Kirbyesque details on the walls and the absence of any outside world makes the environment of the film timeless and suitably, subtly existential.

May 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Electric Sheep

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Alex Fitch

Electric Sheep

Nem mesmo os di�logos pedestres e as atua��es medianas conseguem destruir o interesse gerado por um conceito interessante, ainda que mal desenvolvido.

December 16, 2006 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Quite a good sci-fi thriller that has built up a deserving cult audience since its original release . . .

September 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

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James O'Ehley

Sci-Fi Movie Page Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

A bizarre, frightening, and clever new low-budget movie with a "Twilight Zone"-ish premise.

June 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

One of the smartest, most nail-biting thrillers in EON's

April 27, 2003 Comment

Clint Morris

Moviehole

Cube is a film boxed in by its own intriguing central premise.

April 12, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Nick Schager

Slant Magazine

Cube proves the time-honored maxim that there's no better guide out of a complex maze than an autistic man-child with incredible mathematical skills.

April 12, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Nick Schager

Slant Magazine

The film's clever gimmick holds up well, despite a cold, clinical tone.

January 11, 2003 Comment

Rob Vaux

Flipside Movie Emporium

For the six trapped characters in this film their own warps are their worst enemies.

March 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

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A neat idea with decent acting and a solid story. This is what film making should be about.

March 21, 2007

John Manard

Super Reviewer

"The Walls Are Closing In."7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps. REVIEW"Cube" is one of the most inventive low-budget sci-fi films of all-time. It proves that science fiction is about ideas

October 7, 2011