Playing with Sharks

Name: Playing with Sharks
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 23, 2021
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Valerie Taylor

2021

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Playing With Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story

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| Release Date (Streaming): July 23, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Valerie Taylor

Summary: Pioneering scuba diver Valerie Taylor, who has dedicated her life to exposing the myth surrounding our fear of sharks.

Director: Sally Aitken

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Bradley Gibson

May 21, 2021

Anyone seeking motivation, or just looking for inspiration, will marvel at the life story of Valerie Taylor, her sharks, and her love of the sea. She is a treasure, as is Sally Aitken for bringing her story to the screen. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

May 21, 2021

Even people who felt nervous about stepping into a bathtub after “Jaws” might find themselves giving these denizens of the deep the benefit of the doubt, thanks both to Taylor’s decades of advocacy and Aitken’s moving portrait of grace and compassion in and out of the water. Read full review

David Rooney

May 21, 2021

The very personal nature of Taylor’s involvement with these magnificent creatures makes this quite an affecting account of their threatened survival. Read full review

John Anderson

Jul 27, 2021

Playing With Sharks has its visual thrills but also tells one good story after another, not only about making movies and flirting with death but about the nature of the fish and the steely character of the movie’s human subject. Read full review

The Film Stage Juan Barquin

May 21, 2021

Playing With Sharks could have easily been another documentary heaping praise onto an individual, but it works so well because it allows its subject to engage with her greatest regrets as much as her greatest achievements. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

May 21, 2021

Setting the Taylors’ footage in such a quotidian structure is like setting the world’s most beautiful diamond in a ring pulled from a Cracker Jack box Read full review

Matthew Anderson

May 21, 2021

The extraordinary amount of footage, which moves from monochrome, to grainy colour, to vibrant turquoises as technology and time march on, is really a wonder to behold. If, wherever you are in the world, there’s the opportunity to see Playing with Sharks on the big screen, then you should, to fully experience this eye-opening, vivid documentary. Read full review

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