Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Brendan Fraser gives a devastating and powerful performance in The Whale, which is a career-best. It’s another Darren Aronofsky film that’s a lot to process, but it’s an emotional story about life and redemption I’ll remember for a while.
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: The writing and directing of ‘The Whale’ are so unfathomably bad, the actors are left to flail for their lives
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The best performance in the film actually comes from Samantha Morton, who in one scene burns the house down expressing every emotional stage of a marriage and its broken aftermath.
- [New] | Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Candice Frederick @ HuffPost
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A great performance in a bad movie.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Not much is particularly new or dazzling, although the fairly standard story is executed with enough skill to remain engrossing.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Because without Fraser and Chau’s performances, that’s all this really is: a shallow plea for kindness in a world so cynical that people have grown less accepting than they already were in hopes that God gives them a reserved seat at the apocalypse.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: It’s unfortunate that I find the deliberate ways in which stage play adaptations retain certain qualities to feel like a hindrance… With that in mind, Fraser certainly earns the plaudits given thus far, as does the rest of this cast.
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
