engaging

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 2, 2009

I do think the movie loses focus at times, but nevertheless, this is a pretty interesting story into madness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 5/6 | Jan 18, 2008

The details just get stranger and stranger.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2008

Knowing in advance how it all turned out cannot rob this remarkable movie of any of its drama, although ignorance of the events probably adds to the kick.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2007

As a portrait of obsession, competition and, finally, delusion, Deep Water is haunting and engrossing, and one of the best nonfiction movies of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2007

As directed by Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell, the movie breezes along at a highly watchable clip, thanks to fluid, affecting intercutting of archival, black-and-white footage and present-day interviews.

| Nov 3, 2007

This is fascinating stuff... that would be better served by a magazine article or book.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2007

The film evokes a visceral understanding of solitude at sea.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Deeply researched and compellingly presented, Deep Water is as much about one man's misadventures on the ocean as it is about loneliness, desperation and the danger of dreams.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 25, 2007

Not merely a documentary portrait, but an engrossing drama with more twists and turns than your average thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 12, 2007

This is pretty heady stuff, and it's constantly enthralling, particularly for something that has to use so much second-hand information.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2007

This well crafted and engaging documentary is a ripping yarn of a man's mansize adventure going horribly wrong.

| Oct 6, 2007

...the less said about this film the better. It's that good.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 28, 2007

This was a story that made front pages in its day but has been largely lost to history, and now is brought bracingly and compellingly back to life.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 21, 2007

Some beautiful shots give unexpected texture to the film, such as an underwater capture of a boat from below, with prisms of light surrounding it. And its final image is a quiet heartbreaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007

With the discovery of films and audiotape from the first solo, non-stop nautical race around the globe, Deep Water promises to take us where we have never been.

| Original Score: B | Sep 20, 2007

This isn't primarily an adventure story, though it's very suspenseful; it's first and foremost a profoundly sad tale of human frailty.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 15, 2007

But more startling are the original tape recordings and 16mm films made by the solitary competitors as they spent more than ten months alone trying to sail around the globe.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 14, 2007