this one has a unique scenario that plays on claustrophobia, fear of running out of food, and being buried alive. I mean it as a total compliment to say Centigrade will drive you nuts
one of the most incredible feats of survival ever put to screen; Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza are two solid performers working with a tantalizing hook that Brendan Walsh simply doesn't know to realize with cinematic flair or strong emotion
neither tense nor thematically resonant enough to overcome its literally small-scale aspects, "Centigrade" proves as much an ordeal for its viewers as its characters
"Centigrade" portrays some decidedly uncinematic aspects of the ordeal, like tedium, yet it doesn't go as far as to become unsavoury. The characters are not particularly compelling and their problems are pedestrian and unoriginal