Deep Water (2007) Critic Reviews

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Variety | Deborah YoungAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie leaves us with greater things to contemplate than a mere tragedy of errors.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | G. Allen JohnsonAdd Critic to Favorites

One of this year's better studies of the human soul.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Mark FeeneyAdd Critic to Favorites

Deep Water, which had seemed like a sort of Conrad novel, takes on the aspect of Dickens at his darkest.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

A spooky, moving documentary.Read the full review

The New York Times | Rachel SaltzAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

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