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The Shallows

2016

Jaume Collet-Serra

Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen, Sedona Legge ...

5.3

14,465

Thriller. Horror Nancy (Blake Lively) is a young woman stranded alone on a rock with a great white shark circling the waters between her and the shore.

	Media	Author	Review
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"A perfectly stupid guilty pleasure (...) The Shallows could have been a really fun B-movie. And in a lot of ways, it is. (...)Too bad it’s a bit too watered down"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"[A] summer scarefest (...) Lively may have been cast primarily for her physique, but she proves a compelling heroine all the same"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It's all patently ridiculous. But Blake Lively, director Collet-Serra and a digital shark show no mercy in hooking us with the B-movie tension. And we bite (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"An old-fashioned shark-attack exploitation picture that willfully disregards all the important lessons of suspense"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"With its lean script, clever construction and arresting cinematography, this crass-on-paper bikini movie turns out to be a minor masterpiece (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'The Shallows' is a rousing, effective B-movie (...)It's not going to make anyone forget 'Jaws', but it delivers the kind of breathless tension that justifies its existence"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Sufficiently tense yet fatally cheesy, The Shallows sports plenty of B-movie gusto, but this woman-versus-shark thriller never fully rises above its predictable survival storyline"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The best shark movie Since ‘Jaws’ (...) director Jaume Collet-Serra finally earns his cult"

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