The Deep End of the Ocean

If the film was less than satisfying as a big-screen event, it's still worth renting for Pfeiffer, who valiantly portrays the devastating complexities of grief and guilt. Full Review

I'm genuinely of two minds about the picture. I want to say it's subtle, but I also want to say it's heavy-handed. I want to say it's incisive, but I have too many problems with its psychological elisions to let it off the hook. Full Review

The movie's a floating longboat that ought to be ignited and pushed out to sea, Viking style. Full Review

It's a classy but downbeat spin on the most familiar of TV-movie formulas. Full Review

Grosbard mercifully avoids melodrama -- the only real false notes are musical ones, from a score by Elmer Bernstein that turns familiar and trite when the film does not. Full Review