The Raft remains a fascinating look into human relationships that's even more relevant in the wave of sensationalized television.

| Mar 24, 2020

By constructing an alternative to this narrative and giving a voice to the wounded yet resilient people left in its wake, Lindeen brings empathy and perhaps something like justice to what would otherwise be nothing more than a sex raft.

| Feb 25, 2020

This documentary is fascinating... It's really worth a watch.

| Oct 1, 2019

[A]n enlightening documentary that shows how one man was driven mad by his quest for answers to the mysteries of human behavior.

| Original Score: B | Sep 20, 2019

Blinded by his ego, acting like the captain of the Bounty, Genoves apparently never realized the experiment was valuable and was yielding interesting if surprising results.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2019

Director Marcus Lindeen richly intersperses these staged interviews with archival footage filmed during the journey, as the documentary itself becomes an experiment in memory-making and revelation.

| Jun 17, 2019

A document, as well as a documentary, of genuine consequence. The news is surprising, and pretty darned good.

| Jun 13, 2019

Favored with copious amounts of footage shot during the voyage, as well as Genovés' collected data and writings, Lindeen forged a riveting and illuminating study of the unscrupulous endeavor.

| Jun 13, 2019

You wonder why The Raft hasn't been turned into a drama yet, since it's got everything: a high-concept premise, big ideas, conflict, base urges, twists, action, and a diverse cast in which looking good with little on is historically accurate.

| Jun 13, 2019

This is such a uniquely bizarre story that it can't help but exert a certain fascination. But it's hard to avoid the feeling that it would have been better served by a compelling dramatization rather than this too-dry documentary.

| Jun 7, 2019

In The Raft, less authorial control doesn't necessarily make for a better story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 7, 2019

The picture that emerges decades later is of a moody, manipulative Svengali, blinded by his ego to what was really happening on the raft.

| Jun 6, 2019

It's a wild ride that plays out like a reality show prototype that was far too treacherous for 온라인카지노추천.

| Original Score: B | Jun 6, 2019

The film uses Santiago Genovés's experiment to scrutinize memory and capture the feeling of life under a very curious sort of dictatorship.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2019

An absorbing portrait of a bold (or foolhardy) historical experiment that hits many of today's hot-button topics, dominated by a compelling and complex central figure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2019

Yet the crushing disappointment of the film (which matches archive footage with contemporary reflections) is that nothing really happens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 19, 2019

It's all splendid fruit for a documentary, especially given two things: the remarkable filmed record of the expedition at the time, and the fact that seven of its members are still alive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2019

It is an interesting story, and yet the film doesn't quite summon up the atmosphere of the raft. It doesn't fully plunge you into that strange milieu, nor does it quite analyse exactly what was going on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2019

If we all end up like this, we should be happy: prepossessing wrecks, blithely remembering the days we put to sea as vessels of youth, hoping we'd reach journey's end without destroying ourselves or each other.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2019

Marcus Lindeen has the participants of a radical social experiment re-enact moments from their experience, bringing forth some moving confessions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2018