Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 94 | Rotten: 21
A well-acted film noir with arresting visuals.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 3
A well-acted film noir with arresting visuals.
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A mother is drawn into a sinister web of blackmail while trying to protect her son in this drama. Margaret Hall (Tilda Swinton) is a wife and mother of three living in Lake Tahoe, whose husband is a Naval officer stationed in the Atlantic ocean. Margaret's oldest son, teenaged Beau (Jonathan Tucker), is gay and has become involved with Darby (Josh Lucas), a disreputable older man whom Margaret does not trust. Margaret confronts Darby and tells him to stay away from her son, but Darby isn't
Aug 15, 2001 Limited
Apr 16, 2002
$8.3M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (130) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (95) | Rotten (22) | DVD (17)
For the most part ... the filmmakers and performers invest a high level of intelligence and sympathy into The Deep End.
The Deep End is the year's best movie since Memento.
The Deep End does what too few films even attempt -- it takes an ordinary life and places it in an extraordinary situation just believable enough to be terrifying.
The film ultimately fails, either because the premise is too absurd, or the execution isn't absurd enough.
Top CriticTakes the quiet, nonviolent approach to conjuring up thrills.
Swinton mesmerizes as the desperate mother of three under siege.
Woman-in-jeopardy thriller with a double twist.
Margaret doesn't throw punches, just rolls with them. Some of her actions can't be objectively condoned. But through a maternal prism, Tilda Swinton makes sure they're understood, with skill sly enough to register strongly in the most ordinary of roles.
Finely crafted but more than a little overrated.
As the protective mother, the brilliant Tilda Swinton elevates this well-directed neo-noir way above its status as a loose remake of the 1949 Max Ophuls's Reckless Moment.
Its overall attempts at re-igniting the unsettling ambience of old-fashioned film noir are let down by a potholed plot and poor characterisation.
Having two directors at the helm doesn't help
A film that is diverting but not memorable.
Swinton ... is for once deglamorized into an ordinary woman enlarged by extraordinary circumstances, and the role animates her wonderfully.
A stunning and stylish update of The Reckless Moment (1949), the sophomore effort from Siegel and McGehee is a taut psychological drama that lingers long after its credits roll.
Tack up another winner for Tilda Swinton! She is an actress that never ceases to astound me. She is such a dominating force onscreen, but she never over acts or overdoes it. The story is really anything new, but amazingly enough its actually pretty confincing. The whole end with Goran Visnjic's character was a bit
December 10, 2009
Super Reviewer
Beautifully shot film. A fairly predictable story, made interesting by a great cast and solid performances. In an attempt to save her son from an "unsavory" relationship, Margaret (Swinton) unknowingly sets in motion a chain of events that slowly puts her entire family at risk. And perhaps more interestingly puts her
June 8, 2009Super Reviewer
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