Deep Water (2022)

"De Armas behaves as if she’s in some saucy cologne commercial, and Affleck appears to have necked a hundredweight of Percocet before the cameras rolled."

"Stubbornly and knowingly unsexy..."

"The film is hindered by lacklustre direction and a script barely willing to scrape the surface of what could have been an intense, psychosexual exploration of masculinity, morality and marriage."

"Who thought this was a good idea?"

"(A) disappointingly flat and decidedly un-erotic non-thriller..."

"Lyne’s a talented enough director to keep us invested, even in the film’s lunatic last third."

"Most remarkable about Deep Water is the fact that beyond being a sexy and gruesome thriller, it is also an absolute riot."

"The good kind of trash..."

"After a dangerous, even personal, first half, Deep Water becomes crude in all the wrong ways."

"(Lyne) manages to drain all the subtlety and psychological complexity from Highsmith’s story..."

"Adrian Lyne resuscitates the erotic thriller as contemplative, campy fun..."

"Deep Water isn't really thrilling or erotic, but it accomplishes a kind of diagonal camp sincerity..."

"For the first time in a long time, (Lyne is) enjoying his characters’ awfulness rather than damning them for it."

"Deep Water shows that (Lyne) hasn’t lost his touch."

"For a stylish thriller to work, it needs to be at least a little bit stylish and offer an occasional thrill. Deep Water does neither."

"A wickedly funny potboiler..."