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Deep Water Review

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5.0

Dave White Profile

… a heart-in-the-mouth viewing experience … Read full review

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  • 4.0
    80

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Deborah Young

    As it explores the limits of human endurance, the pic should suck even landlubbers into a whirlpool of gripping adventure, overblown ambitions and sheer human folly.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune

    It's like watching a slow multi-car pileup on an icy road: Everyone can see what's about to happen, but nobody can stop it.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    Again and again you want to shout at the screen: "Turn back. All will be forgiven." This tale of risk, though, ends not with man conquering nature but in calamitous failure.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    A stunning documentary that not only beautifully elucidates a nearly forgotten incident but touches on crucial themes involving isolation, sanity, self-worth, impossible dreams, the nature of heroism and limits of human endurance.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    As Crowhurst's situation grows desperate, the scope of the film expands -- from a good yarn to a haunting, complex tale of self-promotion, media madness, self-delusion and, finally, self-destruction.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Deep Water is a documentary, but it's also one part adventure film, one part Greek tragedy, and one part meditation on the role of the "hero" in modern society.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Disturbing, unnerving and wire-to-wire involving, Deep Water is the story of a dream that got so wildly out of hand that it ensnared the dreamer in an intricate trap of his own devising.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    A spooky, moving documentary.

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Deep Water review by gilesjoseph
Fascinating, and well done.

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