The risk with making a movie involving characters confined in a small space is that the audience can wind up feeling more claustrophobia than suspense.
Such turns out to be the case with Brendan Walsh's directorial debut, about a couple trapped in a car during a blizzard. Neither tense nor thematically resonant enough to overcome its literally small-scale aspects, Centigrade proves as much an ordeal for its viewers as its characters.
Supposedly "inspired by real events," the film wastes no time establishing its premise. It begins with married couple Matthew (Vincent Piazza, Boardwalk Empire) and Naomi (Genesis Rodriguez, Quibi's The Fugitive) waking up in their SUV, which has been buried under snow and ice.
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