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

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

The film evokes a visceral understanding of solitude at sea.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 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

For this gripping and amazing documentary, such truth emerges not just from the facts, but also the poetry of men who redefine themselves in a risky race on small sailboats.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 14, 2007

Deep Water is a stunning documentary that not only beautifully elucidates a nearly forgotten incident but touches on crucial themes involving isolation, sanity, self-worth, impossible dreams, the nature of heroism and limits of human endurance.

Full Review | Sep 10, 2007

One of this year's better studies of the human soul.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Osmond and Rothwell do a commendable job of mining a rich archive of material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Osmond and Rothwell's depiction of his unraveling is an exquisitely structured drama.

| Sep 7, 2007

To reveal Crowhurst's decision would be to spoil a stunning tale. Deep Water is not itself comparably stunning.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Despite the flaws in the structure and story of Deep Water, Osmond and Rothwell display great skill at keeping their audience informed.

Full Review | Sep 7, 2007

Remarkable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 6, 2007

A fascinating documentary about the first single-handed around-the-world sailing race, begins like a Boy's Own adventure tale but ends up more akin to tragedy.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2007

An enthralling documentary about an Englishman named Donald Crowhurst who, in 1968, set off on a solitary, nonstop circumnavigation of the globe.

| Aug 30, 2007

A spooky, moving doc that chronicles the first solo attempt to circle the world by boat.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 29, 2007

His story is a footnote in sailing history, to be sure, but a fascinating one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

A true-life tale of inadvertent self-destruction, Deep Water's generic title belies its haunting incisiveness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2007

Given that the tedium of months on the open seas could and did drive a man insane, co-directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell have done a commendable job of making Deep Water... well, not boring.

| Aug 21, 2007

Deep Water confirms all the mythical terrors that lurk in our dreams of the sea, and the best person to watch it with would be Melville.

| Aug 20, 2007