One of the great things about films like this is that it understands the circumstances it puts its unlikely heroine in are outlandish and yet rooted in deep truth and realistic actions by its characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2020

The Deep End is an unconventional thriller with unconventional characters, unconventional actors and an unconventional pace. That serves the movie quite well.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2014

Woman-in-jeopardy thriller with a double twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 13, 2011

Margaret doesn't throw punches, just rolls with them. Some of her actions can't be objectively condoned. But through a maternal prism, Tilda Swinton makes sure they're understood, with skill sly enough to register strongly in the most ordinary of roles.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

The Deep End is a sun-drenched noir that lets Tilda Swinton prove herself as an action hero.

| Jul 6, 2010

Finely crafted but more than a little overrated.

| Original Score: B | Jul 30, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

As the protective mother, the brilliant Tilda Swinton elevates this well-directed neo-noir way above its status as a loose remake of the 1949 Max Ophuls's Reckless Moment.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 18, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Its overall attempts at re-igniting the unsettling ambience of old-fashioned film noir are let down by a potholed plot and poor characterisation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2003

Having two directors at the helm doesn't help

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2003

A film that is diverting but not memorable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Swinton ... is for once deglamorized into an ordinary woman enlarged by extraordinary circumstances, and the role animates her wonderfully.

| Nov 18, 2002

A stunning and stylish update of The Reckless Moment (1949), the sophomore effort from Siegel and McGehee is a taut psychological drama that lingers long after its credits roll.

Full Review | Nov 18, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

An engrossing, full-of-surprises thriller about a woman who gives new meaning to the term 'supermom.'

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 15, 2002

The characters and their duplicitous relationships ... are riveting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2002

Unbidden, Alek (Goran Visnjic) gives Margaret what she wants from her family: recognition. Maybe that's all that any woman wants from her family.

| Jun 27, 2002