Trouble the Water Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The film is so immersed in Roberts's life that it becomes easy to think that most of what the camera sees is also from her perspective. It's actually too seamless.Read the full review
The documentary shows outrageous behavior, none more so than when they and many others are directed to a nearby Navy base for refuge.Read the full review
Essential, unique viewing.Read the full review
A stirring documentary.Read the full review
Lessin and Deal have made Trouble the Water a spellbinder you do not want to miss.Read the full review
Engrossing documentary.Read the full review
Kimberly's ground-zero home video of the storm is what really makes the film exceptional, although much of it is of such rough quality and execution that it struggles to hold up on the big screen.Read the full review
They have created an ingeniously fluid narrative structure that, when combined with Ms. Roberts’s visuals, news material and their own original 16-millimeter film footage, ebbs and flows like great drama.Read the full review
Trouble The Water is infuriating in its depiction of helpless Americans getting left behind, and uplifting in the way it shows the Roberts putting their lives together, but it's also frustrating, because it lacks some focus.Read the full review
Though tinged with the sheer gumption and personal resolve of amateur vidmaker and would-be rapper Kimberly Roberts, this is ultimately a minor doc contribution to the bulging library of Katrina-related films and TV reports.Read the full review
