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The Divide (2012) has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
David DeWitt, New York Times: WEAK "...filthy, horrific torture porn.... It's bravura filmmaking by the director, Xavier Gens.... But for what end? In this realm 'The Divide' fails miserably." (Read the full review...) 479 words, 01/13/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "...so devoid of artistic integrity -- or simple humanity -- that it insults all the other movies still waiting to get made." (Read the full review...) 135 words, 01/13/12 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Director Xavier Gens seems to have set out to fashion a taut, under-siege thriller, but he never lets the innate drama of the situation play out... the writing simply doesn't hold up..." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 01/13/12 Sara Stewart, New York Post: POOR (cg) "By the time we arrive at the finger-chopping, the brutal rape and the pooping on the floor for spite (really), you may sympathize with Milo Ventimiglia's plea to 'Shoot me!' " (Read the full review...) 182 words, 01/13/12 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "...the pace of the film is just too sluggish to maintain our interest and, at under two hours, it feels longer." (Read the full review...) 437 words, 01/20/12 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...what 'The Divide' finally offers audiences is the not-terribly-edifying, stagnant experience of being locked in a basement with a pack of assholes." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 01/11/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: WEAK (cg) "It's a rare movie where the most likable character onscreen, and the feel-good hero of the damnable show, is none other than the hardy cockroach." (Read the full review...) 590 words, 01/20/12 Phil Brown, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Though not particularly fresh, 'The Divide' is an entertainingly nihilistic romp if you have a strong stomach for gore, perversion and B movie cheese." (Read the full review...) 197 words, 01/19/12
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: POOR (cg) "...simply noxious for noxiousness's sake. French director Xavier Gens and writers Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean almost seem to take a kind of perverse pride in seeing how far they can go." (Read the full review...) 442 words, 01/20/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: POOR (cg) "The film's only point appears to be lurid delight in topping one atrocity with another." (Read the full review...) 162 words, 01/20/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: WEAK (cg) "Most of 'The Divide' saddens and bores since it often seems rigged only for shock. The provocations, ideas, and scenarios all belong to other movies - 'Alien' and 'Fight Club' and 'Straw Dogs,' for starters - and existential theater." (Read the full review...) 369 words, 01/13/12
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...what 'The Divide' finally offers audiences is the not-terribly-edifying, stagnant experience of being locked in a basement with a pack of assholes." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 01/11/12 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...there are tasty touches to be had (if you're up for some ham and cheese)..." (Read the full review...) 159 words, 01/12/12 Scott Tobias, AV Club: FAIR (cg) "Better performances might have sold 'The Divide,' but aside from Rosanna Arquette's fine work as a single mother driven to self-degradation, the cast amplifies the impression of a canned, one-act theater piece." (Read the full review...) 420 words, 01/12/12 Alison Willmore, Movieline: MODERATE (cg) "The characters are at best doodles, and none of the performances are able to tease more depth out of them... The sprinkles of political relevance are clunkier and more problematic." (Read the full review...) 657 words, 01/13/12 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...quickly reveals itself as an amateur hour that would make even Lamberto Bava blush... a hodgepodge of plot holes and pointless divergences." (Read the full review...) 569 words, 01/08/12 Phil Brown, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Though not particularly fresh, 'The Divide' is an entertainingly nihilistic romp if you have a strong stomach for gore, perversion and B movie cheese." (Read the full review...) 197 words, 01/19/12
David DeWitt, New York Times: WEAK "...filthy, horrific torture porn.... It's bravura filmmaking by the director, Xavier Gens.... But for what end? In this realm 'The Divide' fails miserably." (Read the full review...) 479 words, 01/13/12 Mark Jenkins, NPR: POOR "...a post-Armageddon scenario in which the neighbors are more toxic than the radioactive fallout. These people go feral so fast that their circumstances barely seem to matter..." (Read the full review...) 472 words, 01/12/12 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Director Xavier Gens seems to have set out to fashion a taut, under-siege thriller, but he never lets the innate drama of the situation play out... the writing simply doesn't hold up..." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 01/13/12
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: WEAK "Plodding and repetitive... resembles nothing so much as an extended 'Twilight Zone' episode as it brings a sci-fi twist to a familiar scenario about stressed characters who bring out the worst in each other while trapped in close quarters." (Read the full review...) 319 words, 03/20/11 Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "Things go from bad to worse for both the bedraggled characters and the audience... Relentlessly unpleasant and nihilistic in its approach and execution..." (Read the full review...) 307 words, 01/11/12 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Director Xavier Gens seems to have set out to fashion a taut, under-siege thriller, but he never lets the innate drama of the situation play out... the writing simply doesn't hold up..." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 01/13/12 David DeWitt, New York Times: WEAK "...filthy, horrific torture porn.... It's bravura filmmaking by the director, Xavier Gens.... But for what end? In this realm 'The Divide' fails miserably." (Read the full review...) 479 words, 01/13/12
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