A lovely, sweet family film.

| Mar 15, 2023

You can feel barnacles on the dialogue, like when a corporate bully (Erik Thomson) growls, “You and your mom really think you can stop this, don’t you?”

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 3, 2023

Manages to be pensive and breezy at once, a reflection on the way those who raise us sometimes impart their most noble values to us even as they’re driving us crazy—and their little ways of annoying us are often the things we miss most when they’re gone.

| Mar 3, 2023

“Blueback” is beautiful to look at and touchingly sincere about the urgency of protecting the oceans, but it is also thinly scripted.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2023

A transporting mother-daughter (and fish) drama as well as a beautifully shot memory piece that will reward patient viewers able to settle in and enjoy the film’s accessibly low-key vibe.

| Mar 3, 2023

It all goes down easily, with editor Nick Meyers’ pace never growing slack despite a general laid-back vibe.

| Jan 22, 2023

An exceptional cast brings this very beautiful and ultimately moving film vividly to life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2023

[A] wholesome and modestly affecting coming-of-age story...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2022

A love letter to Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef and the sea creatures that make their home there.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2022

Against [its] gorgeous backdrop, Connolly sets a coming-of-age tale that’s downright silly, never finding a tone that does anything beyond manipulation.

| Sep 21, 2022