Rotten
Stand back from this fable and examine it for logic, and you see how nonsensical it is.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
The Light Between Oceans
Love demands everything
2016 · 2h 13m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Derek Cianfrance
Overview
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
58%
Tomatometer
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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