The Deep End of the Ocean
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 12, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
16
Negative:
5
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38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A painfully stolid movie that lumbers past emotional issues like a wrestler in a cafeteria line, putting a little of everything on his plate. Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
I'm genuinely of two minds about the picture. I want to say it's subtle, but I also want to say it's heavy-handed. I want to say it's incisive, but I have too many problems with its psychological elisions to let it off the hook. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It's not the implausibility of its plot, the shallowness of its characters, its funereal pace, its tenuous understanding of teenage behavior, its commercial-ready TV-movie-style direction, or the fact that Pfeiffer and Williams may be the most implausible Italian-Americans since James Caan -- the film is most undone by its near-complete lack of genuine drama. Read full review
10
Washington PostStephen Hunter
It has the overwhelming stench of a film afflicted by star ego -- Michelle Pfeiffer is never wrong, which is exactly what is wrong with The Deep End of the Ocean. Read full review
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The movie's a floating longboat that ought to be ignited and pushed out to sea, Viking style. Read full review
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