Synopsis
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
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Cast
- Lauren GermanEva
- Michael BiehnMickey
- Milo VentimigliaJosh
- Courtney B. VanceDelvin
- Ashton HolmesAdrien
- Rosanna ArquetteMarilyn
- Iván GonzálezSam
- Michael EklundBobby
- Abbey ThicksonWendi
- Jennifer BlancLiz
Recommendations
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The A.V. Club
Better 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. - 40
Time Out
Unintentionally 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. - 38
Slant Magazine
In 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. - 38
Boston Globe
It's doom that we're meant to feel here. And repulsion. I hate to say, but I shrugged. - 30
Variety
Plodding 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. - 30
Village Voice
Neither intellectually nor viscerally engaging, what The Divide finally offers audiences is the not-terribly-edifying, stagnant experience of being locked in a basement with a pack of assholes. - 30
The New York Times
We wait, from one cringe-inducing, hide-your-face-from-the-screen act after another, to see how much worse the behavior will become. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
Relentlessly unpleasant and nihilistic in its approach and execution, The Divide is best appreciated as a virtual instruction manual on how not to behave during a crisis.
