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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Nov 2019

As if the dazzling performances and audaciously intertwined storylines weren’t enough, Waves is a visual stunner, too, thanks to director…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 20 Nov 2019

Is it worth crawling across the broken glass of the initial hour to make it to the balm of the second…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 20 Nov 2019

It’s all a bit much, as the picture’s two halves are in no way equal, and the post climax scenes, reaching for “healing,” tend to soften…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 19 Nov 2019

Waves is as exhilarating and terrifying as the roller-coaster ride of adolescence itself, plunging viewers into a world brimming with music…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Nov 2019

The picture’s gliding energy is something to behold, and when Tyler’s predicaments turn to panic, and then worse, the suspense becomes…

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By Candice Frederick (452) for TheWrap (3,203) on 17 Nov 2019

Waves isn’t an easy film to digest, and it’s not without its flaws — Emily’s narrative at the end makes it a bit disjointed, and Tyler’s…

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By Jbatthemovies (3) on 16 Nov 2019

Incredible. I’ve never felt so much in a film. I’m still recovering and I can’t stop thinking about it…

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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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