The Sea Is Watching
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57 out of 100

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    An exquisite period film from a script Akira Kurosawa did not live to direct. It has a softer edge than the master probably would have delivered, but it is deeply affecting.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    80
    A mostly unsentimental little gem.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    60
    It has the big themes that obsessed Kurosawa at his greatest, and that alone makes it worthwhile.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Park
    30
    Though The Sea (and the sea) wants to capture some elemental, unruly truths, it's ultimately an over-lacquered jidai-geki curio, something for the appendix of the next book on Kurosawa.

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