Centigrade Instant

Centigrade is cold, slow, and ultimately forgettable. Stream it only if you need a cinematic sleeping aid. For a real chiller, watch The Revenant or Fargo instead.

Pregnant American author Naomi (Genesis Rodriguez) and her husband Matt (Vincent Piazza) wake up buried under snow. The doors are frozen shut, the engine is dead, and they have no cell service. It’s a nightmare scenario. Centigrade

The logic gaps are maddening. Why don’t they break a window immediately? How do their phones keep having battery for weeks? The dialogue is stiff, and the husband’s character is written as such a stubborn liability that you stop rooting for their survival. Centigrade is cold, slow, and ultimately forgettable

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. Pregnant American author Naomi (Genesis Rodriguez) and her

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.