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  • 2022
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2022
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Teenager Hatzín travels from Mexico City to collect the remains of his father, found in a communal grave in Northern Mexico. But a casual encounter with a man who he shares a physical resemblance with introduces both doubt and hope around the truth.

Directed By: Lorenzo Vigas

Written By: Paula Markovitch, Laura Santullo, Lorenzo Vigas

  • 2022
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2022
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 32 m

The Box

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Teenager Hatzín travels from Mexico City to collect the remains of his father, found in a communal grave in Northern Mexico. But a casual encounter with a man who he shares a physical resemblance with introduces both doubt and hope around the truth.

Directed By: Lorenzo Vigas

Written By: Paula Markovitch, Laura Santullo, Lorenzo Vigas

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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90
Feb 6, 2023
There is this marvelous hard-boiled narrative style Vigas employs, with long periods without dialogue and little exposition. The way the intrigue is built as the picture progresses almost takes us into thriller territory. This is the cinematic storm the filmmaker creates here when a child’s yearning meets the brutality of an outlaw land.
By Michael Talbot-Haynes FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 17, 2021
Superb ... 'The Box' may see [Vigas] relocating to Mexico, but it’s otherwise wholly of a piece with his debut in its terse, cut-to-the-quick refinement, its loaded, exquisitely composed images, and its fixation on shifting, complex man-versus-boy dynamics.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 17, 2021
La Caja is a canny blend of detective story, political drama and rites of passage vignette, and is the sort of film that comes across as so simple and direct that it’s easy to miss how meticulously conceived and constructed it is.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
83
Sep 17, 2021
The Box lacks the sort of ardor that made From Afar so memorable. Here, not all the major beats amount to substantial commentary on this relationship or the context. However, there are choices and plot elements that confirm the director’s narrative sagacity.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 8, 2022
Director Lorenzo Vigas, who collaborated on the script with Paula Markovitch and Laura Santullo, adeptly manoeuvres things so that the film slides effortlessly from mystery to criminal story to quasi-Greek tragedy, changing registers with subtle alterations of tone. The landscape – vast, desiccated, menacing – is practically a character in its own right, full of inscrutable secrets like Hatzín’s own deadpan face.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 17, 2021
Vigas’s direction is efficient, pedestrian, entirely built for purpose. But he manages to keep the audience on-board throughout the tale’s twists and turns.
By Xan Brooks FULL REVIEW
42
Nov 11, 2022
Only touching on something interesting formally in the hum of factory machines and the depressing deadness of low-rent diners, it feels like the kind of work where one uses the descriptor “well-made” as a backhanded compliment. The director pulls off his “vision,” but frankly it doesn’t seem that hard to think up.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Teorema, Ivanhoe Pictures, Labodigital, SK Global
Release Date Nov 11, 2022
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Awards

Mexican Cinema Journalists
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Premios Canacine, MX
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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