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A Cure for Wellness

2016

Gore Verbinski

Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Susanne Wuest ...

5.7

10,094

Thriller. Mystery. Horror

Thriller. Mystery. Horror

An ambitious young executive (Dane DeHaan) is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The only possible cure for 'A Cure for Wellness' would have been for the horror film maestro Val Lewton to have been summoned from the grave to chop it down to no more than 79 minutes."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"You might feel like you’re in the company of a manic cinephile (...) You admire his devotion, his taste and his scholarship, but in the end the experience is probably more satisfying for him than it is for you. Still, the company isn’t bad."
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"By the end of the seemingly interminable 146 minutes, audiences will have already guessed the story's ultimate twists, although by that point it's quite likely they will have long since ceased to care either way."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"The movie deprives us of either a tragic villain or a sympathetic lead, hoping that its grab bag of squirm-inducing details (...) will suffice, when in fact, they reveal how a shorter, tighter treatment ought to have done the trick."
		Jordan Hoffman Vanity Fair	"This movie's oddball structure isn't 'dream logic'; it's more like sitting there as someone describes to you this crazy dream he had."
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"An alternately intriguing and frustrating chiller has flashes of elegance but settles for unhinged hokum with bizarre results (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A thrilling reminder of what can happen in the increasingly rare instance when a visionary filmmaker is given serious cash without constraints."
		Kevin Jagernauth The Playlist	"[It] is an exercise in watching a film continually stifle itself at its most compelling moments"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"It spins and turns in its own frustrating confines."
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"This is not so much a horror movie as a lookbook for one (...) [But] 'Cure' looks gorgeous. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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