
After a nuke bomb, residents of a building manage to rush into the building's bomb shelter before the superintendent seals the door. The group acclimatizes to the cramped surroundings while the superintendent asserts his dominance over the shelter and its inhabitants.... (Full plot summary below)
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After a nuke bomb, residents of a building manage to rush into the building's bomb shelter before the superintendent seals the door. The group acclimatizes to the cramped surroundings while the superintendent asserts his dominance over the shelter and its inhabitants.
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| IndieWireEric KohnThe Divide manages to transcend its numerous flaws while indulging them: No matter where it falters, the underlying purpose stays put. |
| MovielineAlison WillmoreThese characters are at best doodles, and none of the performances are able to tease more depth out of them. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenValuable life lessons always come at a steep price, and this one is no exception. Sorry, but you'll have to shell out for The Divide and then suffer through its nearly two hours of bloody inanities. Weigh the balance, make your choice. |
| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenDirector 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; too often, events are accompanied by loud thumps and whooshes on the soundtrack. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasBetter performances might have sold The Divide, but aside from Arquette's fine work as a single mother driven to self-degradation, the cast amplifies the impression of a canned, one-act theater piece. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfUnintentionally true to its title, The Divide first goes for a similar bleakness (it barely registers as entertainment), then lurches into a rousing, vengeful finale; both sides of the equation add up to less than zero. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisIt's doom that we're meant to feel here. And repulsion. I hate to say, but I shrugged. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezIn Xavier Gens's The Divide, the revolution will not be televised, only the degradation of human civility--and in a mire of clichés more toxic to the mind than the radioactive dust that causes everyone's hair to fall out in the wake of a nuclear explosion. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonPlodding and repetitive in its efforts to maintain pressure-cooker intensity, The Divide 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. |
| NPRMark JenkinsAs the loosely aligned band of survivors turns into a pack of sociopathic loners, the only reasonable conclusion is that they were all pretty rotten to begin with. |