The Sea Inside Critic Reviews

A monumentally moving experience, from the powerful acting by Javier Bardem to the evocative music, composed by the director, Alejandro Amenábar.Read the full review

A dramatic triumph.Read the full review

The result is a film both poetic and profound.Read the full review

Bardem's performance is a marvel of restraint and control, both physical and emotional.Read the full review

The Sea Inside is uplifting. This is a movie that may cause viewers to both laugh and cry.Read the full review

As for Bardem: How can I do him justice? He is normally the most robustly physical of actors, with a plummy voice and an insolent sensuality. To see him immobile, ashen, his hair gone, de-bodyized: It's agonizing.Read the full review

Has its share of contrivances, some more successful than others, but center stage is occupied by truth, and austere beauty.Read the full review

It's moving, romantic, dreamlike, flawlessly acted and so engaging as to make you forget about euthanasia before it jolts you back into recognition.Read the full review

This is simply the story of one man. Yes, and on those terms I accept it, and was moved by the humanity and logic of the character.Read the full review