It's certainly pleasurable, but this modern Fatal Attraction is too prudish to satisfy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Honestly, reflecting on this movie for more than five minutes will make the whole thing melt in your hands, so it’s best not to consider it for too long.

| Apr 7, 2022

OK, it’s not Body Heat.  But it kept my motor running.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2022

I didn't like this movie, mostly because I didn't believe this movie.

| Mar 30, 2022

Deep Water is a great example of what can happen when you let otherwise competent movie stars just go for it, for better or—and in this case it’s mostly “or”—worse.

| Mar 29, 2022

In some ways, I’m happy to have even a simulacrum of a movie for grownups. But I’ve been waiting 20 years for the new Adrian Lyne to drop, as it were. This wasn’t worth the wait.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2022

A feeble, witless adaptation...Lyne and his screenwriters never stray from familiar tableaux... The actors portraying the emotionally sadomasochistic couple cant evince the merest spark of shambolic erotic energy between them.

| Mar 25, 2022

Lyne may not have recaptured his glory days here, but he has given us a robustly acted mystery thriller we can all sink our teeth into.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2022

The master of the erotic thriller, Adrian Lyne, returns after 20 years; the master of self-aware acting, Ben Affleck, continues a stellar run. But something about this movie just leaves you feeling limp.

| Mar 23, 2022

Deep Water has abandoned thought and logic for horny, unhinged vibes. It’s so much beautiful fun.

| Mar 21, 2022

It's a strange thing to call a Lyne movie tame, but by his standards, Deep Water is.

| Mar 21, 2022

Even if you're intrigued by the thought of a new erotic thriller in 2022, stay far away from "Deep Water."

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 21, 2022

It was hard for me to close the distance between myself and this movie, to get into it, simply because it felt ... mechanical. The seams show.

| Mar 20, 2022

Deep Water doesn’t pan out. It doesn’t add up. Not in a fun way: in an unsatisfying way. The ingredients are largely there, but by even the standards of a genre that no one insists should make complete sense, the movie doesn’t really make sense.

| Mar 18, 2022

While the movie falls apart toward the end, the mystery -- and crackling central performances -- cruises along at a low boil much of the way.

| Mar 18, 2022

Through Lyne’s expertise as well as Affleck and de Armas’ gameness about their semi-transparency, the erotic thriller once again attains its highest aspiration by obliterating the concept of the guilty pleasure.

| Mar 18, 2022

Deep Water comes dressed up as an ‘80s-style erotic thriller, a genre that I, for one, would love to see revived. But it’s so tepid, so lacking in heat or even a pulse, that it’s about as sexy as a clogged artery.

| Mar 18, 2022

A vicious piece of work, a movie made by a filmmaker who is unafraid to see the primal, darker parts that beautiful people hide behind their gorgeous facades.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2022

Ben Affleck sniffing his snails: that is what you are in for if you commit to watching Deep Water.

| Mar 18, 2022

Deep Water plays like a sexy, macabre Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, an intense dialogue between an unhappily married couple thats occasionally disrupted by outsiders.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2022