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Waves
Directed by
Trey Edward Shults
R
2019
2h 15m
Drama
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7.5
84%
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The epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family as they come together after a loss—a heartrending story of compassion in dark times.
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Cast of Waves
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Tyler
Taylor Russell
Emily
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Catharine
Sterling K. Brown
Ronald
Lucas Hedges
Luke
Alexa Demie
Alexis
Neal Huff
Bill
Clifton Collins Jr.
Bobby
Krisha Fairchild
English Teacher
Ruben E. A. Brown
Wally
Joshua Brockington
Stan
Vivi Pineda
Elena
David Garelik
Ryan
Bill Wise
Coach Wise
Harmony Korine
Mr. Stanley
Holland Hayes
Doctor Steve
Justin R. Chan
Chang
Albert Link
Minister
David Payton
Security Guard
Lulu Braha
Protestor
Avis-Marie Barnes
Doctor
Harlan Drum
Sophie
Jon Brudzinski
Cop 1
Jeffrey Hersh
Cop 2
Dennis Deveaugh
Cop 3
George Greer
Judge
Carter Harcek
Lip Sync Boy (uncredited)
Alan Fritz
Bailiff (uncredited)
Kristin Wollett
Park Mother (uncredited)
Nicholas Ryan Hernandez
Lip Sync Boy (uncredited)
Taisha Perez
Coroner Jessie (uncredited)
Ellen Marguerite Cullivan
Doctor (uncredited)
Ciarra Krohne
Core Friend
Waves Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Beautiful and pensive and heartbreaking...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Daniel Neman
It's a tangential film, or perhaps elliptical. It approaches its ideas from the side without ever actually coming straight at them.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
When it works, it hits as hard as any movie this year, but those triumphs only come in waves.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
"Waves" is definitely not a film for everyone, but it has hidden depths that will reward the patient.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Schultz has a lovely way of telling a just-on-the-verge-of-melodramatic story on a very human level; his camera gets lost in the faces, the flashing sirens, the immediacy of two young people finding a home with each other.
Houston Chronicle
Cary Darling
(Shults) has crafted an emotionally pummeling yet ultimately uplifting work that ranks as one of the year's most unique and individual films. And in a year that has given us "Us," "Parasite," "The Farewell" and "The Irishman," that's saying something.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Waves is both incrementally unnerving and eventually exultant, a pitch-perfect portrait of post-millennial teenage life, with all of its ultra-adrenalized emotions, fraught expectations, and fateful, rash decisions.
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
The emotional through line of Waves and its exploration of forgiveness give shape to a movie that often feels like a mixtape.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Russell's performance is like a rush of wind on a dry, hot day, the blessing you didn't know you needed.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The gyrating and glowing images in this melodrama, written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, can't mask its flimsy storytelling or facile manipulations.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
All of Shults's stylistic brio and formal inventiveness is finally in the service of a story about love, its mutability and fragility.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
True to its title, "Waves" is frightening and soothing, overwhelming in its elemental force and rarely still.
Associated Press
Jocelyn Noveck
Prepare to be bowled over by two relative newcomers: actress Taylor Russell, who quite simply has the most expressive young face to be seen onscreen in many a season, and Kelvin Harrison Jr., who can be cocky and vulnerable in the same split second.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The emotional typhoon unleashed in this family drama is the work of Trey Edward Shults, a major young filmmaker who draws astounding performances from Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Sterling K. Brown and an unforgettable Taylor Russell.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
In end though, substance - or at least [Shults's] sincere approximation of it - wins.
Film Comment Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
What probably could or should have taken up the bulk of the 135-minute film is its second act. But by this point, Shults has already run a marathon in circles, exhausting his own film.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
[A] powerful artistic undertow that sucks viewers in and spits them out gasping.
Observer
Rex Reed
The film is too long, but I was impressed and riveted throughout.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Whatever your reaction to this ambitious, boldly original and hard-hitting family drama, you could never accuse writer-director Trey Edward Shults of holding anything back.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Shults' third feature, both unpredictable and powerful in its impact, careens steadily toward tragedy and then comes out the other side in a way few modern American movies ever attempt, or manage.
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