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One of this year's better studies of the human soul.
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100The real emotional impact of the film lies in the candid interviews with Crowhurst's wife, Clare, and his son, Simon, both of whom are clearly still haunted by Crowhurst and his fateful voyage.
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100Deep Water is a movie that will connect to anyone whose private fantasies and creative plots have landed them in hot water.
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91A spooky, moving documentary.
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91This was a story that made front pages in its day but has been largely lost to history, and now is brought bracingly and compellingly back to life.
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91A compelling, well-researched, beautifully assembled document.
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90Disturbing, unnerving and wire-to-wire involving, Deep Water is the story of a dream that got so wildly out of hand that it ensnared the dreamer in an intricate trap of his own devising.
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It's hard to imagine a time when the sea bore a sense of adventure close to outer space.
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88The story of Donald Crowhurst is not one of remarkable courage or remarkable endurance. But it is remarkable.
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88Deep Water is a documentary, but it's also one part adventure film, one part Greek tragedy, and one part meditation on the role of the "hero" in modern society.
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80A stunning documentary that not only beautifully elucidates a nearly forgotten incident but touches on crucial themes involving isolation, sanity, self-worth, impossible dreams, the nature of heroism and limits of human endurance.
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Again and again you want to shout at the screen: "Turn back. All will be forgiven." This tale of risk, though, ends not with man conquering nature but in calamitous failure.
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80As Crowhurst's situation grows desperate, the scope of the film expands -- from a good yarn to a haunting, complex tale of self-promotion, media madness, self-delusion and, finally, self-destruction.
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An exquisitely structured drama.
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It's like watching a slow multi-car pileup on an icy road: Everyone can see what's about to happen, but nobody can stop it.
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75This fine documentary mixes archival footage, interviews with the sailor's family and sponsors, and - most amazingly - excerpts from the film and audiotape diary kept by Crowhurst.
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Even though the subject of this British documentary is a traveller who got lost in a more terrestrial sort of void, the spirit of the stranded astronaut haunts Deep Water.
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75The stories of the other competitors are just as fascinating, particularly that of Bernard Moitessier who, after nearly a year at sea, could not bear to return to England, and turned sail for Tahiti.
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70It is the point -- and the power -- of Deep Water that the vast, unknowable fathoms of the sea are rivaled only by those of the human psyche.
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70As it explores the limits of human endurance, the pic should suck even landlubbers into a whirlpool of gripping adventure, overblown ambitions and sheer human folly.
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70The movie leaves us with greater things to contemplate than a mere tragedy of errors.
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63Deep Water, which had seemed like a sort of Conrad novel, takes on the aspect of Dickens at his darkest.
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60A sad story, but well told, with respect for its subject and an eye for the Shakespearian tragedy in the tale.
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Co-directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell have done a commendable job of making Deep Water . . . well, not boring.
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jgm10sad & thought-provoking story
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BobM.10Profoundly sorrowful, profoundly human, profoundly philosophical.