Low Tide

Name: Low Tide
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: October 4, 2019
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Alex Neustaedter, Camila Perez, Daniel Zolghadri, Danny Bolero, Jaeden Lieberher

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A24 | Release Date: October 4, 2019 | R

Starring: Alex Neustaedter, Camila Perez, Daniel Zolghadri, Danny Bolero, Jaeden Lieberher, James Paxton, Keean Johnson, Kristine Froseth, Michael David Baldwin, Mike Hodge, Nicholas Barasch, Shea Whigham, Teddy Coluca

Summary: Alan, Red, and Smitty spend high summer on the Jersey Shore roving the boardwalk and getting into trouble. But the discovery of good old fashioned treasure sets the friends on an escalating course of suspicion and violence in this atmospheric thriller.

Director: Kevin McMullin

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 86 min

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Jesse Hassenger

Sep 30, 2019

Low Tide is mostly a genre exercise. But it’s a disciplined, rigorously entertaining one. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Oct 3, 2019

Kevin McMullin displays a piercing awareness of the tensions that drive the dynamics of adolescent outsiders. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Oct 4, 2019

This is an old-fashioned hybrid of a thriller and a coming-of-age narrative that explodes when a fortune gets dropped into it. Think of it as an adolescent “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” with echoes of '80s adventure classics like "The Goonies" and "Stand by Me." Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Oct 3, 2019

If Low Tide recedes all too fast, it still leaves behind a clear sense that life doesn’t always happen on schedule, and that the hardest part of growing up is figuring out what to share with people along the way. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 22, 2019

The cast is uniformly fine, with Neustaedter (of TV’s “The Colony”) throwing an evil Heath Ledger vibe and young Zolghadri born to play a prison “snitch.” Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

May 6, 2019

McMullin’s feel for the setting greatly enhances the story, as does evocative camerawork from Andrew Ellmaker, making his own impressive feature debut. But McMullin’s inexperience as both a writer and director does sometimes hold him back. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Oct 2, 2019

This tale of a teenage gang of petty criminals whose alliance becomes fractured by a surprisingly big haul doesn't generate any real suspense and lacks the depth of characterization to make up for it. Read full review

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GrantD243

Oct 4, 2019

So much potential, yet so little results. Low Tide has all of the makings of a great coming of age film, and the first 15 or so minutes are very promising. A group of teenage boys eat at a diner and hit on girls during the day, and then they rob houses at night. One day, however, two of theSo much potential, yet so little results. Low Tide has all of the makings of a great coming of age film, and the first 15 or so minutes are very promising. A group of teenage boys eat at a diner and hit on girls during the day, and then they rob houses at night. One day, however, two of the boys find a much, much bigger score while raiding a house. What ensues doesn’t live up to the set up in any way, shape, or form. It’s messy and predictable, and it doesn’t help that several of the characters have one of those pesky “Oh man, I suddenly became much less intelligent!” moments on multiple occasions. The ending also didn’t do much for me. With all of this being said, it’s not quite as terrible as I’m making it sound. It’s just so painfully average after the first 15 minutes that I’m even more disappointed than I would normally be.… Expand

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