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The Drowning

2016

Bette Gordon

Julia Stiles, Josh Charles, Avan Jogia, Tracie Thoms ...

3.9

104

Thriller. Drama A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when he was just 11 years old.

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"The potboiler plot never heats up above a simmer in this anodyne adaptation of a Pat Barker novel."	NEG
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Bette Gordon tackles matters of crime, guilt and redemption with a solid grasp of character and place in 'The Drowning'. Overcoming the screenplay’s gaping holes in logic is another matter."	NEU
United States	Diego Semerene Slant	"Besides being embarrassingly formulaic and marred by equivocated notions around trauma as a kind of madness, the film is an offensively uncritical portrait of a privileged couple (…) Rating: ½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"[It] distinguishes itself by applying a depth of psychological observation that yields a genuinely unsettling vision."	POS
United States	Kenji Fujishima LA Weekly	"The line between a film about confusion and a merely confused work is thin (...) [It] never makes it past the notional stage."	NEG
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"'The Drowning' features some of the most gruel-thin justifications for its already flimsy plot machinations. It's an obnoxious story (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG

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