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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 30 May 2018

[W]hat appears fairly straightforward takes on a new tenor as the violent events of the storm unfold…

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By Scott Menzel (120) for We Live Entertainment (357) on 30 May 2018

Adrift is a powerful film that serves as a much-needed and welcomed change of pace from the typical summer fare…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 30 May 2018

Foreshadowing can be beneficial to a film experience or greatly detract from it by causing a frustrating degree of clichéd predictability…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 30 May 2018

This film wouldn't work without the on-screen chemistry of both Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin…

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By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 30 May 2018

This sea-saga blend of love story, fem-strong survival tale and ocean-yarn adventure makes a decent date-night flick…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 30 May 2018

What might have been a typical disaster movie about perfunctorily established characters heading into peril together...instead becomes a love…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 30 May 2018

Despite all its flaws, Adrift builds to an emotionally powerful ending, one that is simultaneously melancholy and uplifting…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 30 May 2018

Switching back and forth between a drippy romance before the storm and intense amounts of anguish and suffering after it, this based-on-a-true-story…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 30 May 2018

It’s great seeing Woodley out of YA sci-fi and into a role that makes use of her approachable reality…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 30 May 2018

Adrift continuously cuts away from the dire situation to focus on the sappy romance…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 30 May 2018

The back-and-forth flashbacks weaken the intensity of the struggle and a weak script and weaker twist ending make even a story of survival…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 30 May 2018

In Adrift, director Baltasar Kormákur, working from a script by Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell and David Branson Smith, focuses on the inner…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 30 May 2018

Dialogue is unusually bland-not unrealistic, but nothing very lyrical or amusing, either…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Film Racket (579) on 30 May 2018

By frequently cutting back to the bland, drippy romance, the filmmakers undercut the intensity of the peril…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 30 May 2018

There’s a choppiness in the overall dramatic pull that — despite the surface appeal of the stars and Kormákur’s and cinematographer…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 30 May 2018

You can consume only so much gooey romanticism before someone gets seasick, and it’s precisely the soggy love story at the center of Adrift…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 30 May 2018

Director Baltasar Kormákur makes good use of location filming on the open waters, giving this melodramatic tale a dose of realism, but this…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 30 May 2018

Although guilty of soft-peddling some harrowing aspects of the experience to achieve the teen-friendly PG-13 rating, Adrift nevertheless gives…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Pajiba (523) on 30 May 2018

Adrift is a film with startling intimacy, grounded romance, and sly sophistication…

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By Sandy Schaefer (333) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 30 May 2018

A solid dramatization of real world events, Adrift is nevertheless more compelling as a grisly survival drama than a love story…

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