Though there are ugly events galore, there is not an ugly frame in this entire masterpiece of a soap opera by the sea.

| Mar 1, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2005

The confrontational family dinner features archetypes that would have been at home on Dallas.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 20, 2004

It's Shakespeare mixed with St. Elmo's Fire by way of Bjrk.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2003

For its unique mix of fire and ice, The Sea deserves to be seen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2003

It was all so pointless.

| Original Score: C | Sep 30, 2003

Kormkur is fully content pimping his particular love/hate relationships with the beautiful/harsh landscapes of Iceland in as many different masochistic scenarios as possible.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 27, 2003

[The] film is so sullen that it's more painful than a three-day family reunion with all of your least-favorite relatives.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 12, 2003

The central figures... are so shrill and spiteful that it's hard to care what happens to them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 12, 2003

'The Sea' is only a step above a 온라인카지노추천 soap opera. But it is a step, and we're able to feel genuine compassion for some of the characters, while reveling in the greed and stupidity of the others.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2003

There is something willfully balanced about director- co-writer Baltasar Kormakur's vision of this imploding family.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2003

enough heatless monologues to bore Victor Hugo

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 10, 2003

The motivations of these characters may be a tad easy to predict, but the passion with which Kormakur's cast invest themselves in the proceedings is impressive.

Full Review | Jun 20, 2003

A subzero saga where dysfunction and distress -- and large quantities of herring -- rule.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2003

Funny and entertaining ... in an Icelandic sort of way.

| Jun 13, 2003

The different tones don't always blend smoothly, but it's still a pretty compelling tale.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 12, 2003

"The Sea" doesn't have the same raw sparkle of "101 Reykjavik" and certainly lacks much of the latter's whimsical wonder but it does represent a leap in filmmaking craft for Kormakur.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 10, 2003

Kormakur fails to make us care about these characters . . . rather, their scathing unpleasantness makes us want to run away as quickly as possible

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 8, 2003

Grows more and more ludicrous, like some compendium episode of 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty,' but with snow.

| Original Score: C | Jun 7, 2003