The Weight of Water
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- Starring: Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley, Josh Lucas, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn
- Summary: Based on the novel by Anita Shreve, this is the story of a contemporary woman whose obsession with a notorious unsolved crime from the 1800s leads her to confront devastating truths in her own life. (Lions Gate Films)
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
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Positive: 4 out of 22
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Mixed: 15 out of 22
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Negative: 3 out of 22
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75Despite the deftness with which Bigelow handles the transitions, the modern story never attains the intrigue and tension of the period tale.
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60There is so much to admire in The Weight of Water, Kathryn Bigelow's churning screen adaptation of a novel by Anita Shreve, that when the movie finally collapses on itself late in the game, it leaves you in the frustrating position of having to pick up its scattered pieces and assemble them as best you can.
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60It's an intelligently made (and beautifully edited) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the Hollywood pipeline without a hitch.
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30Provides an unfulfilled promise of pleasure (providing one doesn't cave in to the spectacle of bare-chested Elizabeth Hurley sucking on an ice cube) in this heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension.
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Mixed: 2 out of 4
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