Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play is a murky-looking, claustrophobic exercise in emotionalism at its most trite and ostentatiously maudlin.
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This review of The Whale (2022) was written by Ann Hornaday and published by Washington Post on 20 Dec 2022.
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