★★★★☆ It’s easy to think that our lives have become bottle episodes in recent weeks: single location stories cut off from the grand narrative...

A Twilight Zone scenario of suburban nightmare unfolds in this puzzling sci-fi thriller

Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg play a young couple caught in a nightmarish suburban twilight zone in Irish director Lorcan Finnegan’s sci-fi suspense thr...

It’s as if the works of Tim Burton, René Magritte and David Lynch have all collided into one

A superb Imogen Poots carries this sometimes shaky, but never boring, "Twilight Zone"-like thriller opposite Jesse Eisenberg.

Review: Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg are excellent in this ultimate self-isolation movie

Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star in ‘Vivarium’ as a couple looking for their dream home who become trapped in a mysterious suburban development.

Few young couples trying to get on the property ladder will have a worse time than Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg in Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium.…

Exciting news: Metro.News has merged with metro.co.uk!

A young couple seeking a house in the 'burbs encounter an unexpected (sub)development and cannot leave. Despite its Twilight Zone premise, the film's "eccent...

Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star in this suburban sci-fi thriller

Vivarium could have been written by Steven King, butit wasn’t. It could be an episode of The Twilight Zone, but it’s not.The movie, whose story/screenpla...

Vivarium isn’t a fun watch, and not just because it’s generally claustrophobic and insistently bleak.

Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg play a young couple trapped in a rabbit maze housing development, forced to raise a child dropped on their cookie-cutter hou...

An unconventional, often sinister portrait of marriage from Ireland's Lorcan Finnegan

This a parable about adulthood boasts deeply cynical takes on home, community, and childrearing.

You can’t get away. You’re stuck at home indefinitely. Food is delivered but it has no taste. You don’t know why this is happening to you or if you’r...

We all like to believe that we have some semblance of control over our lives. Do we, though? How much of our identity is dictated by social conditioning? May...

Vivarium is an exercise in wringing dry the audience’s emotions until we’re nothing but husks, which some might find cathartic right now

A chilling sci fi movie about a couple trapped in surburbia is worth watching, says Linda Marric

Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star in director Lorcan Finnegan's film set in a purgatorial pre-fab suburb, but it never follows through on its interesting ideas

Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots land in a Kafkaesque suburban hell. But this is one Twilight Zone that's hell on the audience.

It’s a creepy, sinister, and altogether satisfying nightmare.