Never quite measures up to Pemberton's reach, but there remains enough to be excited about to wonder what will follow this imperfectly made though valuable work.
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Despite its floating narrative, this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film.
Dour and bleak, yet this melodrama -- which doesn't amount to much of anything -- may stick with you.
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Beyond the Ocean, which at its best is reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger in Paradise," doesn't integrate its two story lines in a particularly satisfying manner and the ending is somewhat abrupt.
Doesn't have the content to match the form, never cohering into anything more substantial than a glum navel-gazer about a little girl lost, unable to find a permanent home (literally or figuratively) on either side of the Atlantic.
50
Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
Both provocative and awkwardly arty.
40
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
Ultimately sinks beneath the waves of the Caspian Sea.