Rotten
Stand back from this fable and examine it for logic, and you see how nonsensical it is.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Overview
Follow some of the world’s finest female athletes on a journey that takes them from the slopes of a volcano in Hawaii to the white-knuckle ride down an Alaskan giant, and other interesting places…
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Fresh
Contrivances and melodrama aside, it is emotionally true and that's often the most important thing for a film of this nature.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
The movie ends up seeming like an inchoate hybrid of melodrama and psychodrama-between the oceans, indeed.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
The movie errs most with its main plot, which requires the characters to behave with utmost stupidity, sacrificing its hard-earned storytelling for a frustrating payoff.
David Sims, The Atlantic
Fresh
The Light Between Oceans is stunning to see, and the performances are of the highest caliber, but it's all packaged in a story that just doesn't earn its stay, or our tears.
Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
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