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An up-close look at one family's emotional ups and downs, Waves captures complicated dynamics with tenderness and grace.
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The film oozes cinematic style (every shot has a point, every camera movement an intention), while Shults's screenplay dives deep and tackles essential themes - parenting, forgiveness and the release of death. It's beautiful work. January 17, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The film oozes cinematic style (every shot has a point, every camera movement an intention), while Shults's screenplay dives deep and tackles essential themes - parenting, forgiveness and the release of death. It's beautiful work.
Kevin Maher
The movie is perfectly legible in conventional linear terms. But where it goes, how it gets there and how it comes back again, is more unexpected. January 16, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The movie is perfectly legible in conventional linear terms. But where it goes, how it gets there and how it comes back again, is more unexpected.
Peter Bradshaw
Beautiful and pensive and heartbreaking... December 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Beautiful and pensive and heartbreaking...
Richard Roeper
When it works, it hits as hard as any movie this year, but those triumphs only come in waves. December 6, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
When it works, it hits as hard as any movie this year, but those triumphs only come in waves.
Adam Graham
It's a tangential film, or perhaps elliptical. It approaches its ideas from the side without ever actually coming straight at them. December 6, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's a tangential film, or perhaps elliptical. It approaches its ideas from the side without ever actually coming straight at them.
Daniel Neman
"Waves" is definitely not a film for everyone, but it has hidden depths that will reward the patient. December 1, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
"Waves" is definitely not a film for everyone, but it has hidden depths that will reward the patient.
Kerry Lengel
Perhaps the consistent emotional overload and the common places the movie visits without pause leave no room for a necessary breathe. And so it dies of exhaustion. [Full Review in Spanish] February 21, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Perhaps the consistent emotional overload and the common places the movie visits without pause leave no room for a necessary breathe. And so it dies of exhaustion. [Full Review in Spanish]
Kiko Vega
Strong performances can't overcome the disconnect that occurs halfway through the movie. February 20, 2020 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
Strong performances can't overcome the disconnect that occurs halfway through the movie.
Jackie K. Cooper
This psychological drama about a family in crisis is filled with hyperactive sound and imagery which can be a bit disconcerting at times, but the emotional message of the film about the need to use love to conquer hate comes through loud and clear. February 19, 2020 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
This psychological drama about a family in crisis is filled with hyperactive sound and imagery which can be a bit disconcerting at times, but the emotional message of the film about the need to use love to conquer hate comes through loud and clear.
Robert Roten
Such an important theme seems to promise a narrative indigestion, but Shultz is gifted with synthesis and an unusual intelligence to change tone between an artificial nightmare and a liberating dream. [Full Review in Spanish] February 19, 2020 | Full Review…
Such an important theme seems to promise a narrative indigestion, but Shultz is gifted with synthesis and an unusual intelligence to change tone between an artificial nightmare and a liberating dream. [Full Review in Spanish]
Alonso Díaz de la Vega
A wildly cinematic feast that completely envelops the viewer. February 14, 2020 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
A wildly cinematic feast that completely envelops the viewer.
Frank J. Avella
Although frequently visually stunning, a failure to portray a meaningful source of the drama means the film's impact doesn't last, and what does persist feels increasingly hollow. February 13, 2020 | Full Review…
Although frequently visually stunning, a failure to portray a meaningful source of the drama means the film's impact doesn't last, and what does persist feels increasingly hollow.
Jim Ross
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