The Divide

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  • Opened January 13, 2012 
  • 1 hr 50 min
  • R | Sexuality, Pervasive Language and Disturbing Strong Violence
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. More on child suitability

  • In this graphic and violent, post-apocalyptic thriller, nine strangers—all tenants of a New York high-rise apartment—escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, thegroup begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment. As supplies dwindle, and tensions flare, they grow increasingly unhinged by their close quarters and hopelessness. Each act against one another becomes more depraved than the next. While everyone in the bunker allows himself or herself to be overcome by desperation and lose their humanity, one survivor holds onto a thin chance for escape, even with no promise of salvation on the outside. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance
  • Director: Xavier Gens
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Suspense/Thriller

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Movieline
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These characters are at best doodles, and none of the performances are able to tease more depth out of them. Read full review

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Time Out New York
| Joshua Rothkopf

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. Read full review

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Slant Magazine
| Ed Gonzalez

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. Read full review

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
| Rick Groen

Valuable 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. Read full review

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Milo Ventimiglia in "The Divide."