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By Andy Crump (279) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 31 Aug 2016

The film often looks lovely. But all of that loveliness is a cover for a creaky narrative…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 31 Aug 2016

The moral dilemma at the crux of the story is what makes it interesting, and good choices were made in the casting of Fassbender and Vikander,…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 31 Aug 2016

Cianfrance pushes too hard for his audience's emotional response, with little nuance and strange selectivity…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 31 Aug 2016

A sweeping romantic period drama, heavy with themes of love and duty and fate, lifted up by cinematic craft and great performances…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 31 Aug 2016

What power the film possesses is due mainly to the expressive performances of Fassbender and Vikander, who sweep away the murk more than any…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 31 Aug 2016

As a drama about adult responsibility, selfishness and moral obligations, however, it never wavers in its commitment to examine what it means…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 31 Aug 2016

Cianfrance is so committed to Thomas and Isabel's perspectives that his movie becomes claustrophobic without ever being particularly revealing…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Aug 2016

This adaptation of M.L. Stedman's best-selling tearjerker is tasteful, elegant and decorous-but also stiff, overinflated and ponderous…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 31 Aug 2016

Nominally, The Light Between Oceans refers to the beacon’s location at the geographic point where the Indian and Pacific meet, but it could…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 31 Aug 2016

For all of Cianfrance’s seriousness, the material proves too essentially melodramatic, hokey and self-serious to save…

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By David Medsker (361) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 31 Aug 2016

Fassbender and Vikander are world-class actors who take an underdeveloped script and make it watchable, if not the weepfest that it's shooting for…

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By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 31 Aug 2016

The movie suggests that, like the waters of the great oceans that cover the Earth, all things are connected-past, present and future; grief…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 31 Aug 2016

How hard can life be? This hard. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 31 Aug 2016

Both Fassbender and Vikander explore their characters’ various thorny moral quandaries and shifting states of mind in breath-catching depth,…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 31 Aug 2016

If the drama is purely abstract, Vikander didn’t get the memo…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 31 Aug 2016

Adapted by Cianfrance himself, The Light Between Oceans feels overly tied to its previous form…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 31 Aug 2016

The actors hurl themselves into their roles with sufficient commitment and feeling that you believe in Tom and Isabel completely, even when…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 31 Aug 2016

The Light Between Oceans is an effective melodrama, but the lingering sensation the film leaves after its end is that it might have been much more…

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By Johanna Schneller (84) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 31 Aug 2016

What the protagonists do is simply wrong, and their attempts to fix it are first tepid, then unpleasant…

Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 31 Aug 2016

Beautifully photographed and acted, with a somberly affecting tone, the film, by Derek Cianfrance, is nevertheless marred by severely contrived…

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