The Deep End (2001)

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100	Washington Post Desson Thomson An extraordinarily riveting drama.
100	Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan Exquisitely made with a mesmerizing sense of style, it shows the wonderful things that can happen when traditional material is both handled with care and adroitly updated.
90	Time Richard Schickel Elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting movie.
88	Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea Remains rooted in the real world, which makes its story all the more satisfying -- and chilling.
80	Salon Stephanie Zacharek The Deep End doesn't have a knotty message, but it's a much more meaningful picture than "Suture."
80	Variety Todd McCarthy Taking film noir material and turning it inside out visually and morally, The Deep End is an absorbing, beautifully made melodrama that succeeds on formal levels more than it does with suspense or emotion.
75	New York Daily News Jami Bernard Delicious, intelligent thriller.
75	Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez Swinton single-handedly carries The Deep End past its nagging ambiguities.
70	Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum Watchable enough on its own terms.
50	Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt The same story was told vastly better in the 1949 melodrama "The Reckless Moment."

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