
Entertainment Weekly
It's a testament to (Damon's) tightly coiled performance that Bill comes off as nuanced and sympathetic as he does...
Full reviewThe writer-director of Best Picture Oscar-winner Spotlight helms this crime-drama centred on an Oklahoma oil-rig roughneck who travels to France in an attempt to exonerate his daughter for a murder she claims she didn't commit. Stars Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin (Zombieland).
It's a testament to (Damon's) tightly coiled performance that Bill comes off as nuanced and sympathetic as he does...
Full review(Stillwater would) be more openly ridiculous, feel far more manipulative, if not for Damon's performance... (His) magic is in making a certain plainness, a near-anonymity, defiantly charismatic.
Full reviewThe quality of the acting makes it easy to overlook how increasingly leaden Stillwater becomes - but not easy enough.
Full reviewStillwater should be a deep investigation into a moral quandary, but it just ends up being shallow and irresponsible.
Full reviewMatt Damon plays the ultimate ham-fisted American in France, doing such a good job of it that he helps disguise the flaws of this sometimes compelling but often frustrating movie.
Full reviewUltimately, the cacophony of all these plot lines converging and the weight of the messaging being conveyed is almost too much to bear.
Full reviewAn enthralling, exasperating, and, above all else, ambitious affair that doesn't soften or demand sympathy for its difficult main character but does insist on according him his full humanity.
Full reviewBad things happen and it’s somebody’s fault, but it’s all so very vague.
Full reviewStillwater gives itself over to drastic plot twists that derail what was already a film over-stuffed with narrative incident and ideas.
Full reviewStillwater is wonderfully compelling before becoming completely baffling.
Full reviewA hokey and hectoring saga that evinces little respect or affection for its characters.
Full reviewIt's possible to... admire the obvious intelligence and care that have been brought to bear on Stillwater - without fully buying the trail of contrivances and compromises it leaves in its wake.
Full reviewAn ideal fusion of a Hollywood-style overall narrative with the detailed, lived-in emotional truth of a first-rate European effort.
Full reviewMatt Damon gives a solid performance... But (the) story is clunky, old-fashioned and predictable when it’s not implausible.
Full reviewStillwater mashes up quest-for-justice, father-daughter dramatics, fortysomething romance and mid-life introspection for a refreshingly adult drama.
Full reviewIt’s rather remarkable that a big Hollywood studio is releasing this difficult, curious film. I hope people give its heady mix of melodrama and political allusion a chance.
Full reviewIt’s a disappointing, uneven and overlong film, but there’s something oddly compelling about how messy the end result is.
Full reviewBidegain knows (that) literal-mindedness gets boring, and so he and Debré come at each scene sideways: They let certain things happen off screen, focusing instead on seemingly mundane snapshots that reveal far more about character.
Full reviewA strained but strangely affecting turducken of a movie that bakes a dad-on-a-mission thriller together with a heartwarming fish-out-of-water story and then a brutal crime drama...
Full reviewStillwater is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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