The Finest Hours Reviews

Movie Reviews

• the storm effects are first-rate, immersive all the way. The tale-telling ability of director Craig Gillespie is frustratingly inconsistent

  by Soren Anderson [Seattle Times ]

• the result couldn't be more convincing, and in a film like "The Finest Hours," that counts for a lot

  by Kenneth Turan [LA Times ]

• the movie essentially kills time until the CGI takes over and the oil tanker is torn in half

  by Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic ]

• eventually the whole film is just adrift

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• doesn't reinvent the genre or show off with nonstop bells and whistles. But The Finest Hours gets the job done, just like its central character

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• director Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm) captures the inherent bravery at the heart of Finest Hours even though things go nowhere on the homefront

  by Brian Truitt [USA Today ]

• "The Finest Hours" is probably the best of a bad bunch of recent releases. But it's a shame that this terrific story's engines keep flooding in the face of wave after wave of narrative inertia

  by Michael O'Sullivan [Washington Post ]

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