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The Water Diviner

2014

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney, Isabel Lucas ...

5.8

8,627

Adventure. Drama. War. Romance After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.

	Author	Review
United States	Eddie Cockrell Variety	"An often capriciously mixed cocktail of war film and cross-cultural family melodrama, 'The Water Diviner' marks an ambitious if emotionally manipulative directing debut"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Russell Crowe's directorial debut is a solid, old-fashioned piece of film-making set in Australia and Turkey during the First World War and its aftermath that is guilty of some strange historical oversights. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A preposterous, would-be sweeping historical romance that's far too slight and silly to carry the weight of real history"	NEG
United States	Megan Lehmann The Hollywood Reporter	"A robust, assured war drama (... ), Russell Crowe taps a deep well of symbolism, cultural empathy and good old-fashioned storytelling"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is a sugary drama, in which Crowe's big emotional moment looks as if some assistant director applied a trickling tear to his cheek with an eyedropper. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"It has sincerity, sensitivity and is often ravishing to look at but is let down by a chocolate box love story. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"An ambitious and sentimental period drama (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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