Beyond the Sea
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings
- Starring: John Goodman, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey
- Summary: For Bobby Darin (Spacey), performing was his life. It kept his heart beating. He came alive onstage, even when he was near collapse offstage. In Beyond the Sea, Bobby tells us his own story, in his last great performance. (Lions Gate Films)
- Director: Kevin Spacey
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
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Positive: 10 out of 35
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Mixed: 14 out of 35
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Negative: 11 out of 35
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80Kevin Spacey, both as star and director, has created a hugely entertaining, highly empathetic portrait of a man for whom music was literally the thing that kept him alive.
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58It fails to persuade us that its subject is significant enough to be worth a movie.
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50Spacey is almost as swinging as Darin was, but his filmmaking leans toward tried-and-true formulas.
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38Clumsily merges fiction and reality, biography and musical fantasy, and breaks the fourth wall in a way that allows Spacey to lamely address his own miscasting.
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Positive: 16 out of 21
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Mixed: 2 out of 21
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Negative: 3 out of 21
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KeithB.8
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WilliamD8
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SandyB.8The music was worth the ride, and watching Spacey have so much fun was a blast.
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StevenW.3
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