Something went wrong
Try again later.
A Cure for Wellness
An ambitious young executive 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.
20 April 1944, Lünen, Germany
1965, Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany
13 July 1963, Switzerland
15 July 1952, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
February 16, 2017
There is tremendous visual craft and inarguable style here, but none of the discipline, the sense of pacing and proportion that would allow the filmmaker's creative instincts to soar rather than merely splutter.February 17, 2017
At 90 minutes it could have been an eerie, tricky, well-crafted thriller. At two hours its wheels start to fall off. And then it continues to limp along for another 30 minutes, after which you wonder what the point of it all was in the first place.March 27, 2017
No menacing corridor goes unexplored and no mood is left unteased in this glossily atmospheric thriller where the 1 per cent have their own issues to worry about.April 04, 2017
Definitely the best film by Gore Verbinski; Which is also, fortunately, it's the most risky and radical of his career. [Full review in Spanish]April 17, 2017
A project by the director of Pirates of the Caribbean, which includes elements as scabrous as incest, bizarre sex and gory scenes, doesn't deserve to be completely dismissed. [Full review in Spanish]February 20, 2017
Verbinski inflates a story ready-made for a brisk Gothic shocker into a bloated, self-important mess.March 28, 2017
Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness is lurid unto beautiful, exquisite pulp, just barmy enough to attract a cult and just smart enough to deserve it.February 17, 2017
Somewhere around the middle of the film, one begins to realize it probably isn't going any place worthwhile.February 16, 2017
Seems to last forever and, when it finally ends, leaves a sour aftertaste of overproduced, overblown schlock.February 24, 2017
[The] poor ending felt like a betrayal, since it wrenches A Cure for Wellness fully out of its original genre and into melodrama.May 10, 2017
It won't be everyone but this is a fairytale meeting grand guignol for the multiplex crowd.