Centigrade -

The title is a clever double-meaning (temperature + degrees of separation from safety), but the movie never warms up. Skip it.

Genesis Rodriguez gives a physically committed performance. Her desperation feels real, even when the script fails her. The sound design (the groan of crushing ice, the hiss of carbon monoxide) is occasionally effective. And at 89 minutes, it’s mercifully short. Centigrade

If Centigrade wanted to prove that watching a couple freeze to death in a car is as tedious as it sounds, it succeeded. The film, directed by Brendan Walsh, takes a harrowing true story—a young couple trapped in their vehicle during a blizzard in Norway—and manages to suck every ounce of tension out of it. The title is a clever double-meaning (temperature +

The movie is 90 minutes of people arguing in a cramped Subaru. What could have been a claustrophobic masterpiece (think Buried but with icicles) becomes a repetitive cycle of: wake up, panic, try to dig out, fail, fight, cry, repeat. The pacing is glacial—pun intended. Her desperation feels real, even when the script fails her

Rating: ⭐½ (2/5)