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The Weight of Water Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    45

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

    As a director, Bigelow knows how to get out of the house, but she can be impatient when it comes to humdrum reality. That may account for her interest in Shreve's novel, with its epic tragedies, and it may help to explain the misguided casting of Penn and Hurley, each of whom comes equipped with an oversized personality.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The actors are splendid, especially Sarah Polley and Sean Penn, but we never feel confident that these two plots fit together, belong together, or work together.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety Emanuel Levy

    Despite recurrent narrative and dramatic problems, each of Bigelow's pics provides a visual treat, and this film is no exception.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Contains multiple ax murders, lesbianism, incest, a hanging, and a storm at sea -- yet, despite all of this seemingly enticing material, it's a bore.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    There is so much to admire in The Weight of Water, Kathryn Bigelow's churning screen adaptation of a novel by Anita Shreve, that when the movie finally collapses on itself late in the game, it leaves you in the frustrating position of having to pick up its scattered pieces and assemble them as best you can.

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  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    In the heaving cross-century swirl of the climax, ''Weight'' makes its point: Jealousy is timeless; Hurley is not.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Loren King

    Despite the deftness with which Bigelow handles the transitions, the modern story never attains the intrigue and tension of the period tale.

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