The characters are too arbitrarily drawn, they verge on the merely eccentric.

| Feb 15, 2021

This white trash fairytale is no masterpiece, but its sinister otherworldliness deserves to be applauded.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2019

its marriage of conventional thriller dynamics and unexpected visual potency marks it as something both utterly unique and reliably familiar

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2016

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 17, 2010

a drag-down bore

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2010

A tense and entertaining murder thriller about redemption and greed...

| Apr 29, 2009

A deep-fried piece of Southern Gothic that wears its unpleasantness like a merit badge...

| Mar 26, 2009

While it has lulls and sleepy moments, Undertow also full of startling truths and beauties, as well as offering a window into a side of the country that movies rarely bother to look at.

| Original Score: 8.7/10 | Feb 27, 2009

The actors grapple manfully with the ersatz rural poetry of the dialogue, but Green's pacing is slow and self-indulgent, and the action often departs from recognizable human behavior.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Green's signature pastoral tangents and codeine pacing don't slow down this tale of two boys fleeing their psychotic uncle so much as inappropriately slacken any of the story's suspenseful aspects.

| Aug 16, 2007

Structured like a fairytale and driven like a fast boat down a leafy river, Undertow expertly blends myth and suspense to create a fable with a wicked sense of humor and an appetite for destruction.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Green's most accessible film to date, yet he keeps his directorial style very close to the way it's always been. Slow, patient, revelatory.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A poetic, atmospheric drama that's worth seeing despite Green's struggle to blend character drama with more conventional thrills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2005

It will likely polarize his critics further, causing some to recoil at his welcoming of influences, and others to be thankful for more "Malick-lite."

| Jun 21, 2005

A front-loaded film, sure, but what a front.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2005

Bell is superb as Chris and he completely nails the difficult Southern accent; if you hadn't seen Billy Elliot, you'd swear he was someone Green had picked off the street

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2005

While the first hour promises something very special indeed, the build-up is squandered once the two brothers take flight with not enough sense of danger or urgency to hold your attention.

| Jun 17, 2005

Bad in the worst way, yet it trails clouds of glory and authentic stink from a Georgia pigsty. Pretty, a legitimate auteurist statement. And a flop.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2005

While the disparate elements at times seem to be struggling against each other like cats in a sack, an undeniable current of urgency runs through the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2005