If you enjoy stories of triumph against the odds, you’ll lap this up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2025

An old-fashioned sports biopic about a pioneer in women’s competitive sports.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 26, 2024

Narratively forced, psychologically shallow, aggressively inspirational.

| Original Score: C | Dec 17, 2024

At its best, Young Woman and the Sea stands as a tribute to the disruptors of the norm... While not perfect, it proves it is worth the watch in the strength of the subject matter and performances alike.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2024

"Young Woman" tells of Trudy Ederle's groundbreaking English channel swim, where the 1924 Paris Olympian broke the men's record by 2 hours. Very inspiring.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 4, 2024

Anyone who says, “They don’t make movies like that anymore” should see [this film]. This rousing old-fashioned sports biopic has rich characters and relationships that make the triumph of the first woman to swim across the English Channel truly soar.

| Aug 29, 2024

Young Woman and the Sea swims decently enough through familiar waters to present a steady, sturdy, and safe sports drama.

| Aug 26, 2024

As an accurate account, Young Woman and the Sea might be flawed, but this is still a fascinating, engaging look at an athlete who captured America’s – and the world’s – attention a century ago.

| Aug 11, 2024

All a little bit by-numbers, sure, but those numbers only exist in the first place because of old-school derring-do such as this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2024

Young Woman and the Sea is a likeable sports biopic that tells the inspirational story of Gertrude Ederle in a heavily formulaic, and often very unsubtle, but nonetheless entertaining and accessible manner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2024

A rousing family film whose message of female empowerment feels contemporary.

| Aug 1, 2024

Trudy Ederle was 20 years old when she took the plunge across the English Channel in 1925, becoming the first woman to do so. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 30, 2024

This inspirational, family-friendly biopic presents an overly optimistic story of one woman's extraordinary achievement. It's filled with positive messaging that’s geared towards young girls in particular, celebrating themes of resilience and empowerment.

| Jul 28, 2024

It’s an involving and family-friendly tale that, while predictable, is an inspiring portrait of buoyant fortitude.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2024

This is a solid movie that fits right into Disney’s own brand of storytelling for a sanitized look at how female athletes and women in general used to be treated compared to their male counterparts.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 25, 2024

Young Woman and the Sea lays the sexism on VERY THICK, but it’s effective all the same.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2024

Uplifting, inspiring - and uniquely timely - coinciding with the 2024 Paris Olympics -relating how Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel back in 1926.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2024

Young Woman and the Sea is a beautiful, emotionally driven triumph with brilliant performances from Daisy Ridley.

| Jul 23, 2024

A shade or three too hokey for its own good.

| Jul 22, 2024

It tells a moving story with rhythm and argumentative fluidity, achieving the desired emotion. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 22, 2024