All Is Lost
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83

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  • Summary: Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path of a violent storm. Despite his success in patching the breached hull, his mariner’s intuition and a strength that belies his age, the man barely survives the tempest. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face. … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    Oct 15, 2013
    100
    Redford, already a giant, has never been more suggestive. His character’s misadventure — might be a kind of cosmic penance. It’s the salvation of the moviegoing year.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Alan Scherstuhl
    Oct 15, 2013
    100
    A genuine nail-biter, scrupulously made and fully involving, elemental in its simplicity.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    Oct 16, 2013
    100
    This is Robert Redford doing what too many stars should do and don't: taking a chance. And reinventing his art. It's an extraordinary thing to see.
  4. Movie Nation
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    Oct 16, 2013
    88
    This solo ordeal won’t be to every taste, but All Is Lost is a grand vehicle for the actor and for that viewer ready to consider his or her own mortality, the problems, conflicts, strengths and shortcomings you’re sure you leave behind when you just sail away.
  5. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Jessica Kiang
    May 25, 2013
    83
    All Is Lost is a taut, superbly crafted addition to the survival story genre.
  6. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    Oct 14, 2013
    80
    Unimaginable as anything but a movie. It’s largely wordless, sombrely spectacular, vast and intimate at the same time, with a commitment to detailed physical reality that commands amazed attention for a tight hundred minutes.
  7. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Peter Bradshaw
    May 25, 2013
    60
    Redford delivers a tour de force performance: holding the screen effortlessly with no acting support whatsoever.

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