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Rodrigo Cortés’ Buried is a Twilight Zone episode for Mother Jones subscribers. Ryan Reynolds plays Paul Conroy, a U.S. contractor — a truck driver working in Iraq — who, at the beginning of the movie, at the end, and for every minute in between, is trapped in a plain wooden coffin with nothing but a cellphone, a lighter, a glow stick and a few other accoutrements. His convoy was attacked by a group of Iraqis; he was knocked out, awakening to find himself buried alive in this little pine box. Because time is of the essence and his air supply is running out, he frantically starts dialing numbers on his little cellphone lifeline — 911, the State Department, his wife — desperate to reach someone who can help.

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REVIEW: Rodrigo Cortés’ Buried Amounts to a Pile of Cheap Manipulation