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THE DEEP BLUE SEA (2012)Movie Reviews
Drama about an unhappily married woman in post-WWII England whose life is thrown into turmoil when she falls for a former RAF pilot. Cast:Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Anne MitchellDirector:Terence DaviesRelease Date:March 23, 2012DVD Release:July 24, 2012From:Music Box FilmsRating:RLength:1 hr 38 min
JULY 24, 2012
The Deep Blue Sea (2012), Excellent Reviews Key Cities
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) played in key cities to excellent reviews. • Richard Corliss wrote in Time, "...a museum of emotions, brought to contemporary life through the director's artistry and his leading lady's fire." • And John Anderson wrote in New York Newsday, "Visually sumptuous... uses vintage to its advantage, and packs emotional punch." More Reviews Below...
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) Positive Reviews (41 Reviews, reviews below)
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...exquisite, nuanced, memory-infused work from master British filmmaker Terence Davies... Weisz, in one of her finest performances, opens herself beautifully..."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 374 words, 03/23/12
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD(cg) "A lesser actress would play this misery for Oscar-baiting melodrama. Weisz simply digs deeper under Collyer's thin, fragile skin and makes her pain palpable."(See all of Peter Travers's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 347 words, 03/22/12
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING(cg) "The vast metropolis of London was the scene of greatness during World War II, but a few years later, it is drab, hungry and without optimism."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 815 words, 03/30/12
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (13 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...a sensual film... it is about the fate of untameable, irrational desire in a world that does not seem to have a place for it."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 931 words, 03/23/12
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Weisz's meticulously crafted turn is certainly touching, but it lacks the immediacy of, say, Celia Johnson's in 1945's 'Brief Encounter'..."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 293 words, 03/23/12
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Exceptionally well-made and completely fearless in its depiction of the widest range of romantic emotions... as fiercely committed to passion as its heroine..."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 807 words, 03/23/12
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: VERY GOOD(cg) "...an extremely detailed evocation of that bygone era, when a shellshocked England was still recovering from the wounds of World War II en route to the sexy '60s."(See all of Lou Lumenick's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 475 words, 03/23/12
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...what I love about this is the way Davies can take the oldest and potentially dullest visual strategy in the book and make it seem new, even strange."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 821 words, 03/30/12
John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Visually sumptuous re-rendering of Terence Rattigan's melancholic romance uses vintage to its advantage, and packs emotional punch."(See all of John Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 379 words, 03/23/12
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine: EXCELLENT "...marked by a kind of profound stasis of choice.... not a showy or pronounced movie. Open yourself up to it, however, and it might destroy you."(See all of Bilge Ebiri's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 692 words, 03/23/12
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING(cg) "The vast metropolis of London was the scene of greatness during World War II, but a few years later, it is drab, hungry and without optimism."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 815 words, 03/30/12
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...rare... every side of the triangle is drawn with equal care and sympathy, where each party's hopes -- and their disappointments -- are eloquently understood."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 729 words, 03/21/12
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "The script is dated and the postwar dialogue, true to its time, sounds artificial today, the anachronistic onscreen air filled with sobbing violins..."(See all of Linda Barnard's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 443 words, 04/13/12
Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD(cg) "...the two Terences [playwright Rattigan and filmmaker Davies] are made for each other - not quite a love match, maybe, but a solid symbiosis."(See all of Rick Groen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 750 words, 04/13/12
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT(cg) "It's as if Douglas Sirk had been entrusted with 'Brief Encounter' instead of David Lean... a deliberate, absorbing melodrama in the best sense of the word."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 196 words, 04/12/12
KEY CITIES (12 Reviews)
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: WEAK(cg) "...the story is maddeningly oblique and incomplete, despite paying what at times feels like excruciating attention to the minutiae of a dying love affair's final hours."(See all of Michael O'Sullivan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 533 words, 03/30/12
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Nothing melodramatic here (and this is all so ripe for melodrama!), just stony fatalism, broken dreams, the terrible solitude, and lots of cigarettes."(See all of Steven Rea's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 310 words, 04/13/12
Roger Moore, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: WEAK(cg) "...clumsy, dated and stodgy -- ugly to look at, unromantic in the extreme.... Weisz gives a drained performance that makes for a dreary film, start to finish."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 486 words, 04/06/12
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT(cg) "Weisz is fantastic... so are Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale, each infusing his character with a confidence not supported by his situation."(See all of Bill Goodykoontz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 598 words, 04/27/12
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a member of a family that includes David Lean's Brief Encounter,' Max Ophüls's 'Letter From an Unknown Woman,' and Sirk's 'All That Heaven Allows.' "(See all of Wesley Morris's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 762 words, 03/30/12
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...challenging, to say the least... the movie is itself perched a little precariously between Rattigan's realism and Davies' daydreaming."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 582 words, 03/23/12
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...riveting from beginning to end.... Weisz's performance, from moment to moment - in merciless close-up and long takes - is innovative, truthful and revealing."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 374 words, 03/30/12
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...the first feature from Terence Davies since his 2000 version of 'The House of Mirth,' and the two films share a lush visual beauty."(See all of Moira Macdonald's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 475 words, 04/20/12
Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...isn't a big or bold or conventionally ambitious film. It's only a superb one -- which, I fear, may not be enough to garner it the attention it deserves."(See all of Shawn Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 601 words, 04/27/12
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "The lead role of downwardly mobile mistress Collyer is a meaty one.... But the social drama surrounding her is as dated as fallout shelters and powdered-milk..."(See all of Joe Williams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 362 words, 04/20/12
Tom Long, Detroit News: MODERATE(cg) "...so fiercely and proudly dated that its appeal is limited. It's a time machine of a movie; but who will want to take the trip?"(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 270 words, 03/30/12
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...the film would like us to believe that Hester will go on from her fateful decision... But it has given us no real reason to care what happens next."(See all of Connie Ogle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 498 words, 03/23/12
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (9 Reviews)
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...rare... every side of the triangle is drawn with equal care and sympathy, where each party's hopes -- and their disappointments -- are eloquently understood."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 729 words, 03/21/12
Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Rachel Weisz puts in another one of her fierce, committed performances... even if the movie has her stuck sobbing and staring glumly through thick curtains..."(See all of Katey Rich's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 163 words, 09/15/11
Michael Atkinson, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE(cg) "...both spectrally beautiful and frozen in self-regard.... Rattigan's drama is a small room to maneuver in, and in the end Hester's despair is hers alone."(See all of Michael Atkinson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 150 words, 03/29/12
Jesse Hassenger, Pop Matters: POOR(cg) "The movie verges on clinical, yet it's also strangely imprecise... The relationship becomes an idea of a passionate affair rather than a dramatized experience."(See all of Jesse Hassenger's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 660 words, 03/23/12
Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: VERY GOOD(cg) "There are so few filmmakers willing to tackle the romantic melodrama these days that Terence Davies's film is welcome just for its sheer novelty."(See all of Stephanie Zacharek's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 910 words, 03/22/12
Bill Weber, Slant: VERY GOOD(cg) "Terence Davies may surprise skeptics who'd see this material as a confirmation of his fustiness.... manages enough reinvention..."(See all of Bill Weber's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 650 words, 03/19/12
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT(cg) "It's as if Douglas Sirk had been entrusted with 'Brief Encounter' instead of David Lean... a deliberate, absorbing melodrama in the best sense of the word."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 196 words, 04/12/12
HIGHBROW PRESS (5 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...a sensual film... it is about the fate of untameable, irrational desire in a world that does not seem to have a place for it."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 931 words, 03/23/12
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Exceptionally well-made and completely fearless in its depiction of the widest range of romantic emotions... as fiercely committed to passion as its heroine..."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 807 words, 03/23/12
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: GOOD "...a classy package whose only major problem is it may be a bit too true to its period sensibility and legit origins -- despite its opened-up structure -- to connect..."(See all of Leslie Felperin's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 990 words, 09/11/11
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...intensely personal and deeply felt... however, Terence Davies' attempt to breathe new life into Rattigan's 1952 play is a rather bloodless, suffocating thing..."(See all of Todd McCarthy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 993 words, 09/11/11
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Exceptionally well-made and completely fearless in its depiction of the widest range of romantic emotions... as fiercely committed to passion as its heroine..."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 807 words, 03/23/12
Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT(cg) "...the focus remains consistently on Hester's character... conveys effectively the struggle and desperation of ordinary British folks, trying to rebuild their lives..."(See all of Emanuel Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,089 words, 04/03/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...a sensual film... it is about the fate of untameable, irrational desire in a world that does not seem to have a place for it."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 931 words, 03/23/12
19.3 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
The Deep Blue Sea (2012)'s reviews are separated by an average 19.3 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
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Coverage:The Deep Blue Sea (2012)'s reviews cover 73.3% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 24,903 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 607 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) Coverage, Volume & Length (41 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 62.8 Hours After Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
The Deep Blue Sea (2012)'s reviews on average broke 62.8 hours after opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is The Deep Blue Sea (2012)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) (41 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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