Deep Water
Magenta Light Studios | Release Date: May 1, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Original-CinChris KnightApr 29, 2026
Harlin has had a long and uneven career leading up to this. Though he isn’t quite old enough to have tackled Deep Water back in 1979, he did make Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2 in the 1990s, and this feels like a kind of spiritual successor to those star-driven action movies. Read full review
72
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiApr 30, 2026
It’s easy to forgive cheap aesthetics and a rushed finale when the middle of the flick, the sharktastic bloodletting where no character is safe, is such a hoot. Read full review
69
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 29, 2026
It’s not half-bad. I mean, don’t get too excited – this is still a bad movie. But it is the kind of better-than-it-should-be bad instead of merely bad-bad. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubSimon AbramsApr 30, 2026
In this case, Eckhart exudes the sort of unselfconscious paternal energy that’s needed to keep things moving in between the familiar, but well-executed disaster movie story beats. He almost single-handedly makes Deep Water a better-than-average genre exercise, though the bloody shark attacks and corny banter don’t hurt either. Read full review
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