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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 16 Nov 2019

Waves is a demanding and absorbing family drama that unfolds in two parts without lines of division, yet both parts are distinctively and stylistically…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 16 Nov 2019

They don’t feel like black characters grafted onto roles that were initially conceived of as white, but they don’t always feel entirely…

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By Charles Bramesco (223) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Nov 2019

The good news is that the director’s ambitions, no matter how inadvisable, have attracted a strong cast and occasioned some of their best work…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Nov 2019

All of Shults’s stylistic brio and formal inventiveness is finally in the service of a story about love, its mutability and fragility…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Nov 2019

In the sometimes overstuffed script there’s more than a touch, too, of the TV projects two of its stars are best known for: This Is Us (Brown)…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 11 Nov 2019

Even in the face of grievous misfortune, the characters created by Schults exude a tenderness that allows this achingly intimate drama to move…

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By Joe Lipsett (87) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 26 Sep 2019

In spite of sensational direction from Trey Edward Shults and raw, emotive performances by Kelvin Harrison, Jr…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 14 Sep 2019

The purpose of the fine-grained emotional details keeps getting scrubbed out of Waves as its runtime wears on and reconciliation feels increasingly…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Sep 2019

Waves felt to me like a bitching soundtrack in search of a movie. Maybe I’ll find one on rewatch…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Sep 2019

This is a rare case of a film that’s stronger when it colors inside the lines than radically traces outside of them…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 12 Sep 2019

This is a film that has such a strong first act, but then a head-scratcher of a second that left me actively disliking what I was watching…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Sep 2019

The film is an emotional knockout that will leave even the most stoic viewer on the verge of weeping, but the shifts of the film’s second…

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By Joi Childs (30) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 11 Sep 2019

Frenetic, anxious and visually stunning, the cinematography of Waves invites us to wade into this world, never warning us there’s still a…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Sep 2019

Waves is unmistakably and defiantly its own thing – and when its ideas and aesthetics coalesce, it is a wonder to behold…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Sep 2019

This is intensely physical filmmaking, drenched in Florida sunshine and magnetized by the beauty of the actors’ faces and bodies…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 07 Sep 2019

Waves is unexpectedly ambitious and confident, the work of a filmmaker in complete control of his talents and using them to challenge himself…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 07 Sep 2019

Waves earns its grace-filled ending by asking us to live alongside a trial by fire…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 07 Sep 2019

Waves shudders with ambition and nervy style; it never quite relaxes out of its harrowing first hour but the longer it stretches out, the more…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 07 Sep 2019

Sometimes Shults’ reach exceeds his grasp, resulting in a self-conscious epic that wants to hammer home its characters’ emotional wreckage…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 07 Sep 2019

So there are two films here: one is frightening and poignant and the other tender but slight…

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