This British comedy is well-meaning but lacks the belly laughs to make it memorable.

| Mar 4, 2025

The movie was more depressing than it was entertaining and needed to embrace its light-hearted side more.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2021

It's utterly predictable from start to finish, but still fun.

| Jul 28, 2020

A missed opportunity that unfortunately can't save itself from drowning

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 1, 2019

A very easy-to-watch comedy, very much in the tradition of those Ealing comedies that celebrated the English character ever-so-subtly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2019

It's a film for blokes who seek a bit of undemanding light entertainment.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 22, 2019

Evidently trying (as so many movies of this ilk do) for a perky, Full Monty-type mood, Parker's latest doesn't quite get over the line, but you'll probably enjoy it anyway. Even the soggy bits.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 21, 2019

A gentle, feel-good tonic to a hellish week at the office.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2019

It's a sweet idea for a comedy, and it almost convinces you that it's as funny as it wants to be...It's hard to pick what's missing, but something certainly is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2019

Like The Full Monty and Calendar Girls, the protagonists of this gentle British comedy are unlikely heroes, especially in the context of baring flesh.

| Mar 12, 2019

While predictable and a bit flat, it's still an underdog sporting flick, which is the very best kind, so while hardly memorable Swimming with Men manages to be pleasant viewing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2019

Swimming with Men works best when focused on the interplay between the team's contrasting characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2019

The film manages to send you off smiling after an endearing post script...

| Dec 14, 2018

There is nothing remarkable or consequential about it, but it's not a waste of time, either.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 11, 2018

Between the shallow characters and the waterlogged script, the result is neither consistently amusing nor charming.

| Dec 7, 2018

The ensemble work among the group of actors in Swimming With Men is very strong, with humorous asides, joshing, and banter that feels spontaneous (they are all very funny actors). But the film doesn't invest in them emotionally.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 7, 2018

You don't need a pair of diving goggles to see where all this is going.

| Dec 6, 2018

Although the film has no grand cinematic ambitions, its unsensationalized focus on these aging bodies invites welcome kindness.

| Dec 6, 2018

What it needs is writing worthy of Brydon's talents, giving the main attraction a cinematic playground to explore, not a yellow line of cliché to follow.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 6, 2018

Warm but predictable, men drown their sorrows then almost drown training for the Synchronised Swimming World Championships; I wish Oliver Parker and Gilles Lellouche, director of this year's Sink Or Swim, had filmed both their men's teams at the same one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2018