Water Reviews

Haunting and outraged, it's a compelling cry against inhumanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

This is one of those great foreign films that you wish Hollywood would make so more people would go see them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A lovely and compelling film.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Works on a large, almost operatic, scale but, instead of seeing its world in simplistic terms of heroes and villains, it's a tapestry of immensely complex characters motivated by historic forces and quirks of personality.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Beautiful yet sad, a tale drenched in centuries of stagnant, holy water that cleanses the body but putrefies the soul.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Mehta has made a film of jaw-dropping beauty and eye-opening insight. It's not to be missed.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

Unfolds with the clean, simple lines of a fairy tale, and if the characters initially seem to be too black-or-white to be believable, the moral complexity of the story reveals itself in a gradual, subtle manner.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

In an elemental way ... the film always works.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Ebbs and flows with devastating truths and profound insights into the hypocrisy of extremism in any religion.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Mehta's film is courageous and reticent, a shout masquerading as a whisper.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Reminds us that Mehta is a filmmaker of courage -- she refused to abandon this film even after fundamentalist protestors shut down the production in India -- and singular style, telling stories that have never been told on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Mehta's most powerful film to date

Full Review | Original Score: A-

You'll leave the theater with a lot to think about, especially regarding the plight of women around the globe.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

[Mehta's] graceful direction keeps Water from feeling like medicine.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Packs a punch that is difficult to parry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The humane and courageous clarity of Mehta's storytelling works on you like a hard spring rain.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The final chapter in Mehta's feminist trilogy (Fire, Earth), is, alas, the weakest.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Every moment that is exquisite here... is tinged with a profound melancholy... For every beautiful moment... there is an ugly counterpart...

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an unforgettable film of devastating beauty

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Detailed and graced with irreverent humor and fine performances, Mehta's film deals powerful blows to economic injustice and misogyny.

| Original Score: 3/4