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Waves is an ambitious, startling, spectacular over-stuffed and occasionally quite punishing ride. Shults obviously has a lot to say, and insists on saying pretty much all of it, within that just-forgivable 135-minute running time.
Full reviewTwo young couples grapple with love, family and growing up in this Florida-set romance drama from the writer-director of Krisha and It Comes at Night. Stars Golden Globe winner Sterling K Brown (This is Us) and Alexa Demie (HBO's Euphoria).
Waves is an ambitious, startling, spectacular over-stuffed and occasionally quite punishing ride. Shults obviously has a lot to say, and insists on saying pretty much all of it, within that just-forgivable 135-minute running time.
Full reviewThe film oozes cinematic style (every shot has a point, every camera movement an intention), while Shults's screenplay dives deep and tackles essential themes - parenting, forgiveness and the release of death. It's beautiful work.
Full reviewAll of Shults's stylistic brio and formal inventiveness is finally in the service of a story about love, its mutability and fragility.
Full reviewThe artistic evolution Shults is undergoing makes him as exciting as anyone at work -- he's as sharp as the young Darren Aronofsky, and his heart is only growing larger.
Full review"Waves" is an even deeper plunge into the same pool, but for all its darkness, it's also a work of great tenderness, with a bracing openness to complex new frontiers of human experience.
Full reviewThere are two films here: one is frightening and poignant and the other tender but slight. The first one will haunt me even if the second will fade.
Full reviewWhile the movie risks smothering the heart of its drama in all the movement and noise, the sheer sensory overload often leads to astonishing bursts of emotional sophistication.
Full reviewPropelled by color, energy, electronic music and a quartet of career-making performances, here is that rare sort of cinematic achievement that innovates at every turn, while teaching audiences how to make intuitive sense of the way it pushes the medium.
Full reviewTechnically, it wouldn't be wrong to call Waves a "teen drama," but that generic label doesn't begin to convey the emotional scope of this tender, bruising, exuberant film.
Full reviewWaves is available to stream in Australia now on Netflix and Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV and Foxtel and Binge and Prime Video Store.
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