A Constant Visual Feast

“A Bird Box movie should have two things: Birds, and boxes to put ’em in. Susanne Bier’s 2018 original, a huge hit by Netflix’s nebulous, self-reporting standards, had both; Bird Box Barcelona, Álex and David Pastor’s sequel, has little of the first and none of the second, which sort of spoils the point. Other key elements carry over from Bier’s film, of course. In order to work, Bird Box Barcelona requires the presence of Bird Box’s ineffable big bads, whose visage induces suicidal madness in any poor sap who lays eyes on them. Like Bier, the brothers Pastor never show the things on screen; a movie can’t become a hit if audience members keep killing themselves. We just know they’re there.” (Full review over at Paste Magazine.)