Water
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77 out of 100

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

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  • Starring: John Abraham, Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas
  • Summary: Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, Water begins when 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. (Fox Searchlight)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    100
    Profound, passionate and overflowing with incomparable beauty, Water, like the prior two films in director Deepa Mehta's "Elements" trilogy, celebrates the lives of women who resist marginalization by Indian society.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    As beautiful as it is harrowing.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: David Chute
    80
    Hitches some of the most irresistible conventions of Hindi movie melodrama to an earnest agenda of social protest.
  4. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    60
    A powerful drama, albeit a flawed one with a clumsy, didactic script.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. PrudenceK.
    10
    Easily the funniest and saddest films of the year! I don't know. Sometimes I didn't know what was going on, I am fluent in Hindi though... so that was cool! I thought it was good when they cut her hair, it was so sad! I cried at that part. Oh! And I loved when they played with the dog, that was so cute! But it was mean when they cut her hair. But that lady was so mean! She was big! And she was obsessed with that bird! It was so weird! Cool film!… Expand
  2. ArnoldP.
    10
    The director eexquisitely reveals the results of an ancient prejudice using a amazing cast to open our hearts. Great insight into India and humanity, where nothing is so strange we cannot identify with it. Runs the emotional range with an ending that made my spirit soar while my eyes filled with tears.… Expand
  3. JimG.
    6
    This is the first movie where the depth of emotion conveyed left me thinking there were at least four lead characters. So many characters, so well developed. Though I know people want to make this a one-issue movie, I found it effective in simply telling the story of the individual characters, showing us the truths of their lives even if we don't know all the events that preceded or anything that follows.… Expand
  4. BarbaraK.
    2
    Tragedy as a perfume commercial.

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