There are some moments in the film that won't necessarily work for everyone... I enjoyed it more than I thought.

| Aug 28, 2018

A versatile actress with a good line in crumpled despair, Woodley does just enough to persuade us she'd be better off above water.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2018

Tami, too, employs great ingenuity, as do the creators of this kind of movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 29, 2018

Woodley's very physical performance and the fine photography by Robert Richardson, are reasons enough to see this very competent movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2018

Baltasar Kormákur's film artfully marries an absorbing account of their fight to stay alive with the love story that makes it worth a damn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2018

It's as if the gods were suddenly angered, then placated. It's pure Homer. It's high art. It's pulp. It's fun.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 28, 2018

The lack of suspense ensured by the flash-forwarding structure is a crime.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 28, 2018

To adopt the old cliché, the ocean isn't just a character in this film - it's the best one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2018

A fluid dynamic that ensures this narrative of endurance is never difficult for the viewer to endure, while also drip-feeding information about the couple and their individual histories in just the right order to keep us both engaged and distracted.

| Jun 27, 2018

It's a mildly gruelling watch that leaves you both inspired by Tami's real-life resilient spirit of adventure and will to live, and boggled as to why anyone would be crazy enough to set out across such a watery wilderness in the first place.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2018

The problem comes from a script that fails to truly engage you in their burgeoning relationship and so, in turn, lessens the impact of their later struggles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2018

Every element is so perfect that it left me shaking and devastated.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 7, 2018

An enthralling ride with an exceptional performance from Shailene Woodley at the center of it that's beautifully backed by the dueling ideas of the beauty of nature and also the horrors of it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2018

It looks amazing, but the issues I kept going back to were in the structure...all the tension is diffused whenever we cut back to the past. Those sequences feel rote and familiar.

| Original Score: C | Jun 4, 2018

It's downright refreshing to witness the depiction of a woman as independently strong, capable and determined to survive.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2018

It's worth noting, too, that while the particulars are easily found via a Google search, given the slim nature of the story, the less one knows going into the movie -- other than the fact that Tami lived to write a book about it -- the better.

| Jun 1, 2018

Woodley is outstanding, delivering a performance that is raw in its nakedly relatable concentration.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 1, 2018

Adrift is enough of a boilerplate piece of survival drama that you know to expect those beats more or less coming on schedule, but Woodley makes it more emotionally satisfying than it would be otherwise.

| Jun 1, 2018

A well-tailored vehicle for Woodley to showcase her grit and her hippie-dippie appeal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2018

A simple, acutely observed love story that also happens to be a rousingly stripped-down tale of survival.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2018