Synopsis
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.
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Cast
- Dane DeHaanLockhart
- Jason IsaacsVolmer
- Mia GothHannah
- Harry GroenerPembroke
- Celia ImrieVictoria Watkins
- Adrian SchillerDeputy Director
- Ivo NandiEnrico
- Tomas NorströmFrank Hill
- Ashok MandannaRon Nair
- Lisa BanesHollis
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
Verbinski packs so much stuff into his giddy Grand Guignol, and the more he crams in the better it works. - 75
Slant Magazine
Most gratifying throughout A Cure for Wellness is the moment-to-moment anticipation of where Gore Verbinski will put his camera next. - 63
Movie Nation
What “Cure” doesn’t do particularly well is introduce a mystery, add menace and heighten suspense in racing towards a conclusion. There’s no “Race” for the “Cure.” Still, it’s just chilling to experience, a novel and thought-provoking take on what ails us and our fruitless search for relief. - 60
The Guardian
The movie’s operatic claustrophobia makes its mark. Cult status beckons. - 60
We Got This Covered
In its braggadocios final form, genre fans have a unicorn watch that surely won’t be replicated anytime soon. Points for creativity, points for ambition, and points for a studio showing the balls to back provocative genre cinema. - 58
The Film Stage
It is all of the harrowing horror of an asylum film with none of the deeper, more disconcerting subtext or mind-bending logic puzzles — a film not entirely devoid of merit, but nonetheless hobbled by poor storytelling. - 50
Variety
The movie deprives us of either a tragic villain or a sympathetic lead, hoping that its grab bag of squirm-inducing details — dental drills, stillborn livestock, flesh-eating eels — will suffice, when in fact, they reveal how a shorter, tighter treatment ought to have done the trick. - 42
The Playlist
A Cure For Wellness is an exercise in watching a film continually stifle itself at its most compelling moments.
