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All Is Lost

Never give up.

2013 · 1h 46m · PG-13 Action, Adventure, Drama
Directed by J.C. Chandor

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Overview

During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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95%
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Rotten

Even Redford bailing water for 106 minutes can be a bit much.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

This is an uncommonly absorbing movie.

Wesley Morris, Grantland
Fresh

We get the predictable plot points - storms, sharks, close calls with passing ships - but it feels like a uniquely handmade artifact.

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rotten

All is Lost is a testament to a great actor, an experimental piece of cinema and a bit of a bore.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh

All Is Lost is very much Redford's triumph. His turn isn't pure disappearance so much as a brilliantly human example of cresting and plummeting, cresting and plummeting.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

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