It’s bravado filmmaking to match the exhilarating egg-timer plot.
Buried grabs the viewer and rarely lets its hold slip, playing on our universal fears with great skill.
A brutally intense indie that commits to its bleak premise and doesn’t back down. Tarantino will cackle as he watches.
Buried is a highly impressive example of squeezing a lot of drama from very little.
Plausibility sits cowed in a corner.
Claustrophobes beware. Buried is an excruciating experience that will leave you gasping for air and profoundly impressed. Some will say it’s just an exercise, but there’s no denying its daring. Hitchcock would be proud.
If you can take the sheer, asphyxiating, chest-crushing terror, then this is for you.
Working in such a tight space demands ingenuity, and Cortés and his team are equal to the task.
Thanks to a compelling and committed performance from Reynolds, and accomplished work from its director, Buried is a cracking thriller that for once carries a high concept from idea all the way through to execution.
It's not a perfect film, by any means, but it's an effective one that deserves to see the light of day.
Buried is a superior genre film that shreds the nerves efficiently. Claustrophobics would do well to give it a wide berth.
he movie goes beyond mere chills to point to the terrible anonymity of modern communications and to attack corporate America's cynical indifferences towards its employees.
Dynamic and frightening, but also plaintive and blackly funny, without any cheating.
The film, too, is contained, though that doesn’t stop its cinematic imagination from soaring.
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