The Box

Simplifying One Life, Complicating Another

Richard Kelly, the writer and director of the much-loved “Donnie Darko” and much-loathed “Southland Tales,” has a thing for the apocalypse. Like those films, his latest, “The Box,” is sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious, a serious work that insists on its own seriousness even when it edges toward the preposterous. As in his earlier films, he is again using genre (and pretty actors) as a vehicle to ask questions about the human condition (and conditioning) amid a thicket of high, low and trash cultural allusions and against a backdrop of impending doom. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (5326 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 novembre 2009