The documentary shows outrageous behavior, none more so than when they and many others are directed to a nearby Navy base for refuge.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
If possible, Roberts' movie-within-a-movie is even more amazing than it sounds. She captures a tale of courage, heroism and tragedy more thrilling than any Hollywood spectacle.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Lessin and Deal have made Trouble the Water a spellbinder you do not want to miss.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Jim Ridley
The resilience of the movie's subjects--survivors of street crime and drugs and HIV--irradiates Trouble the Water like sunshine.Read Full Review »
They have created an ingeniously fluid narrative structure that, when combined with Ms. Roberts’s visuals, news material and their own original 16-millimeter film footage, ebbs and flows like great drama.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Neely Tucker
Weaker in its second half than its mesmerizing first, as the story moves away from the intensity of the storm to follow the Robertses in their efforts to resettle.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
The film is so immersed in Roberts's life that it becomes easy to think that most of what the camera sees is also from her perspective. It's actually too seamless.Read Full Review »
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