'The Box'

In "The Box," which is fairly insane by the standards of most Hollywood packages, writer-director Richard Kelly takes the 10-page story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson and stuffs it so full of cockamamie speculative fictions, from magical lightning strikes to NASA projects to the metaphorical uses of Sartre's "No Exit," by the end you can only ...

[Krelgh]

The Box? Went to an advanced screening and all I can say is Plan 9 From Outer Space has real competition for the worst movie in history with this movie's release. It is by far the worst movie I have seen since said same Plan 9. During scenes that were meant to be suspenseful and terrifying, the audience laughed hysterically. Whoever greenlighted this at Warner’s, their new job has “do you want fries with that?” in its lexicon.