The Divide Reviews

Movie Reviews

• the only possible relief from director Xavier Gens’ abusively bleak survivalist scenario is how implausible it is

  by Sara Stewart [New York Post ]

• the film ultimately resembles a parody of depravity rather than a harrowing depiction of such behavior

  Review rate : C- by William Goss [Film.com ]

• so devoid of artistic integrity - or simple humanity - that it insults all the other movies still waiting to get made

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• relentlessly unpleasant and nihilistic in its approach and execution

  by Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter ]

• relentlessly over-scored and incoherently spliced together

  by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine ]

• offers audiences is the not-terribly-edifying, stagnant experience of being locked in a basement with a pack of assholes

  by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]

• nobody survives anything in The Divide, including the audience

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• grim, bleak, depressing and disturbing are all words apt to describe The Divide

  by Staci Layne Wilson [Horror.com ]

• feel increasingly repetitive

  by Mark Olsen [Los Angeles Times ]

• both sides of the equation add up to less than zero

  by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]

• a whole mess of generic nastiness

  by Mark Jenkins [NPR ]
• Review rate : D+ Reviewed by David DeWitt [New York Times ]
• Reviewed by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
• Reviewed by Brett Michel [Boston Phoenix ]
• Reviewed by Susan Granger [SSG Syndicate ]

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