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100
Viewer score based on 3 votes.

Critic Score

80
Critics' score based on 28 reviews.
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An exhilarating, often mind-blowing history of surfing.Full Review

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

Traces the sport to its Polynesian beginnings, then zooms in on the genesis of 20th- century Southern California surf culture -- the boards, the bikinis, the laid-back cowabunga.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Every sport, and every sports film, must have its superman. The role is filled here by Laird Hamilton, who, we are told -- and, more astonishingly, shown -- took "the single most significant ride in surfing history." Seeing is believing.Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

By land or by sea, there aren't many movies that can move you like that.Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post

Giants has SO many insistent high points, in fact, that its breathlessness threatens to turn monotonous.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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