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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 28 Sep 2016

It sticks so faithfully to the conventions of the genre -- earthy blue-collar hero (Mark Wahlberg), worried wife fretting at home (Kate Hudson),…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 28 Sep 2016

Deepwater Horizon succeeds as a point-by-point autopsy of the corporate greed and technological weaknesses that led to disaster…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 28 Sep 2016

Deepwater Horizon achieves that impossible balance of being a tribute to the workers who both perished and survived that day and a searing…

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By Dirk Libbey (36) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 28 Sep 2016

Deepwater Horizon may be the first full-fledged disaster movie ever based on a true story. However, you can't really argue with their results…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Sep 2016

The action, unmoored by any concrete sense of the station's architecture, grows increasingly incoherent…

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By Christopher Lawrence (234) for Las Vegas Review-Journal (433) on 28 Sep 2016

Deepwater Horizon means well…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 28 Sep 2016

Smartly written, perfectly acted, and genuinely heart-stopping throughout, it's a compelling dystopian vision of corporate greed rendered as…

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By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 28 Sep 2016

Berg's relaxed handling of small talk among the crew members makes the set-up a delight to watch, while the ensuing disasters are convincing…

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 28 Sep 2016

This is one of those blockbusters where authenticity propels the action…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for iNews.co.uk (132) on 28 Sep 2016

A gripping account of a terrifying real-life disaster, heightened by strong performances, solid direction and a commitment to realism…

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By Kristian M. Lin (336) for Fort Worth Weekly (325) on 28 Sep 2016

[It's] a valuable reconstruction of the events leading up to the oil-rig disaster that led to countless losses in human and marine life…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 28 Sep 2016

Peter Berg's disaster film about a real tragedy aims only to entertain, and succeeds. Larger lessons, however, are in short supply…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 28 Sep 2016

This is very much an ensemble film, with Wahlberg, Hudson and Russell turning in performances that get the job done without begging for attention…

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By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Sep 2016

Deepwater Horizon is too incoherent to be gripping and doesn't acknowledge that the Deepwater tragedy not only gave rise to courage under oil…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 28 Sep 2016

Berg keeps the story personal, which is certainly one way to tell it, though it would have been nice to see a little more about the devastating…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Sep 2016

When disaster strikes, about an hour into the movie, we’re put in the uncomfortable position of admiring the fiery spectacle that Berg has…

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By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Sep 2016

That Berg and writers Matthew Carnahan and Matthew Sand stick strictly to the day of that explosion and subsequent fire that sank the Deepwater…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Sep 2016

What works almost disturbingly well is the way Berg calibrates his delivery of the disaster while still holding on to the human scale of it…

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By Danny Leigh (85) for Financial Times (1,822) on 28 Sep 2016

The script gleams with efficiency…

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By Jason Zingale (478) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 28 Sep 2016

It works just fine as a dramatic reenactment of corporate greed gone horribly wrong, but unlike the real-life incident, it will quickly be forgotten…

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