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

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

| Nov 18, 2002

For the most part ... the filmmakers and performers invest a high level of intelligence and sympathy into The Deep End.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

A rather dull movie, weighed down by its pretensions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2001

The Deep End is the year's best movie since Memento.

| Aug 29, 2001

The Deep End does what too few films even attempt -- it takes an ordinary life and places it in an extraordinary situation just believable enough to be terrifying.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 27, 2001

The film ultimately fails, either because the premise is too absurd, or the execution isn't absurd enough.

| Aug 27, 2001

Swinton mesmerizes as the desperate mother of three under siege.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2001

Has a cool, glassy appeal -- but then, so does a fish tank.

Full Review | Aug 20, 2001

An extraordinarily riveting drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2001

Superbly acted, strangely moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 17, 2001

Even when The Deep End takes an unfortunate turn toward convention, Swinton is still there, pulling us along.

| Aug 17, 2001

Remains rooted in the real world, which makes its story all the more satisfying -- and chilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2001

Sucks us into its vortex of sex, lies and videotape and refuses to let go -- at least for the first hour or so.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2001

It's intense and involving, and it doesn't let us go.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2001

A perfect example of a small, well-made, and (in its central role) rivetingly acted film.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2001

An intelligently suspenseful and incongruously witty chamber drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2001

Its self-awareness is never less than jarring -- trash too high-minded to come out and indulge itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2001

If the captivating turns and stellar acting of The Deep End don't carry you away, the incredible water imagery surely will.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2001

Elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 14, 2001