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Movie ID: 1205
RT slug: all_is_lost_2013
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_is_lost_2013
Release year: 2013
Runtime: 105 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2013-10-18
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2015-10-06
Tomatometer final: 95%
Audience score final: 64%
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: J.C. Chandor
Writers: —
Producers: Anna Gerb, Justin Nappi, Neal Dodson, Teddy Schwarzman
MPAA rating: PG-13
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-08-21 22:19:50
Updated: 2026-08-21 22:19:50
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner (Robert Redford) awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality.
Anchored by another tremendous performance in a career full of them, All Is Lost offers a moving, eminently worthwhile testament to Robert Redford's ability to hold the screen.
Canonical reviews: 240
Canonical fresh: 227
Canonical rotten: 13
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 95%
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Snapshot Tomatometer: 95%
Snapshot review count: 240
Snapshot fresh count: 227
Snapshot rotten count: 13
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| 2 | Neal Dodson | Producer |
| 3 | Anna Gerb | Producer |
| 4 | Justin Nappi | Producer |
| 5 | Teddy Schwarzman | Producer |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 248563 | Danielle Solzman | Solzy at the Movies | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2025-09-16T19:07:33.000Z | 2025-09-16 19:07:33 | Ultimately, All Is Lost showcases one of Robert Redford’s finest performances in a career that spanned nearly seven decades, a fitting testament to his enduring talent both in front of and behind the camera. |
| 248564 | JD Duran | InSession Film | Fresh | — | 2024-08-19T19:59:04.000Z | 2024-08-19 19:59:04 | It’s engaging, thrilling and speaks to something about the human spirit that is inspiring. Easily one of the year’s best indie films. |
| 248565 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-08-22T00:47:31.000Z | 2022-08-22 00:47:31 | All is Lost is a commendable and engaging motion picture, but also a rare achievement in spare filmmaking. |
| 248566 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-08-19T15:24:41.000Z | 2022-08-19 15:24:41 | With only a man, a boat, and the vast sea, Chandor shows his versatility as a filmmaker by embracing the confines of his environment and making a movie that feels grander than it may be. |
| 248567 | Don Shanahan | Every Movie Has a Lesson | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-06-26T16:19:18.000Z | 2022-06-26 16:19:18 | Commanding the screen without his smile and very few words, Redford gives an acting clinic on screen presence in this exhilarating and striking survival drama. |
| 248568 | Jim Rohner | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2021-04-14T23:50:30.000Z | 2021-04-14 23:50:30 | The rest of the film is an almost entirely dialogue free exercise in man's determination and will to survive, a harrowing film that sees the tension ramp up as the runtime and specter of death increases... |
| 248569 | Niall Browne | Movies in Focus | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-03-17T15:20:21.000Z | 2021-03-17 15:20:21 | All Is Lost is about man's struggle against the world and society. The problems that we face as we get older, highlighting that there is never a satisfying or easy answer, that happy endings aren't always guaranteed. |
| 248570 | Josh Long | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2021-02-16T23:31:16.000Z | 2021-02-16 23:31:16 | While the pace may be too slow to keep most viewers involved, All is Lost does have an approach that stands in stark contrast to the slew of big-budget, star-studded, CGI-driven films available at today's multiplexes. |
| 248571 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-01-31T23:01:03.000Z | 2021-01-31 23:01:03 | Probably more audacious than it is entertaining, but it showcases Chandor's nimble footed technique and Redford's effortless star power. |
| 248572 | Mike Massie | Gone With The Twins | Fresh | 8/10 | 2020-12-03T01:21:58.000Z | 2020-12-03 01:21:58 | It's an account of perseverance, a tense survival exercise that serves as a cautionary document more than a masterpiece of fiction storytelling. |
| 248573 | Richard Propes | TheIndependentCritic.com | Fresh | 3.5/4.0 | 2020-09-01T12:34:28.000Z | 2020-09-01 12:34:28 | Even without dialogue, Robert Redford's performance is quietly mesmerizing. |
| 248574 | Pamela Hutchinson | Silent London | Fresh | — | 2020-03-26T21:41:31.000Z | 2020-03-26 21:41:31 | It is a rare sound film that has learned the extraordinary power of silents -- and it's really very special indeed. |
| 248575 | Brian D. Johnson | Maclean's Magazine | Fresh | — | 2019-08-07T22:44:52.000Z | 2019-08-07 22:44:52 | We sense we're watching a veteran actor being pushed to the limit, which neatly coincides with the character's dilemma. Every line in Redford's weather-beaten face seems invested in the struggle. |
| 248576 | Alexa Dalby | Dog and Wolf | Fresh | 4/5 | 2019-06-07T23:06:54.000Z | 2019-06-07 23:06:54 | Hollywood legend Redford holds our attention singlehandedly and though it is only him and the sea, the suspense never flags. |
| 248577 | David Brake | One Room With A View | Fresh | 4/5 | 2019-06-04T06:46:09.000Z | 2019-06-04 06:46:09 | Redford delivers a tour de force performance to ensure this beautifully simple idea enthralls throughout. |
| 248578 | Bernard Boo | Way Too Indie | Fresh | 9/10 | 2019-04-10T17:26:01.000Z | 2019-04-10 17:26:01 | This is a glorious piece of cinema that revels in the core values of silent film, a tale of man versus nature that speaks to the heart rather than the mind. |
| 248579 | Rachael Mead | Square Eyes | Fresh | — | 2019-03-19T23:51:21.000Z | 2019-03-19 23:51:21 | This is a brilliant film with an intense and engrossing plot and an actor who does justice to his extraordinarily demanding role. |
| 248580 | Patrick Gamble | CineVue | Fresh | 4/5 | 2019-03-07T00:42:24.000Z | 2019-03-07 00:42:24 | All Is Lost's grandiose portrait of honour in struggle is a lucid and indomitable celebration of the endurance of the human spirit that makes for one hell of a ride. |
| 248581 | PJ Nabarro | Patrick Nabarro | Fresh | 4/5 | 2018-11-24T12:25:16.000Z | 2018-11-24 12:25:16 | Unlike similar films, Zemeckis' Cast Away and Cuarón's Gravity, which wrapped up in their contingencies familiarly sentimental undertones, Chandor keeps it pared down and real |
| 248582 | Frank Ochieng | SF Crowsnest | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2018-11-11T23:49:39.000Z | 2018-11-11 23:49:39 | All Is Lost can be tedious to watch at times but its metaphoric overtones about crisis-driven alienation and determination will certainly float one's boat. |
| 248583 | Debbie Baldwin | Ladue News | Fresh | 6/10 | 2018-11-03T03:42:59.000Z | 2018-11-03 03:42:59 | In any event, the film is a subtle acting exercise and a triumph of cinematography; it is also a tad ho-hum. |
| 248584 | Camilla Long | Sunday Times (UK) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2018-02-22T02:31:05.000Z | 2018-02-22 02:31:05 | It is a bold and masterful film, and Redford is great. |
| 248585 | Josh Terry | Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Fresh | — | 2017-11-30T00:06:14.000Z | 2017-11-30 00:06:14 | Its lack of detail and substance might be aggravating to some viewers, but the blank palette puts you in a position to run free with your own interpretation, and I have a tough time believing that wasn't director J.C. Chandor's intention all along. |
| 248586 | Matthew Bond | The Mail on Sunday (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-10-31T17:35:35.000Z | 2017-10-31 17:35:35 | There's almost no dialogue and yet it grips from damp beginning to seriously watery end. |
| 248587 | Rochelle Siemienowicz | Kill Your Darlings | Fresh | — | 2017-10-25T23:55:52.000Z | 2017-10-25 23:55:52 | Powerful. |
| 248588 | Sarah Marrs | Cinesnark | Fresh | — | 2017-10-20T23:10:39.000Z | 2017-10-20 23:10:39 | Even with the boring bits, it's a solid A of a movie, a top-tenner for sure. |
| 248589 | Anwen Crawford | The Monthly (Australia) | Fresh | — | 2017-09-12T19:45:15.000Z | 2017-09-12 19:45:15 | All Is Lost is a testament to the possibilities of digital cinema: a film like this, shot in such close confines, simply couldn't be made with anything other than lightweight, handheld cameras. |
| 248590 | Craig D. Lindsey | INDY Week | Fresh | 4/4 | 2016-08-19T15:34:28.000Z | 2016-08-19 15:34:28 | As grim and hopeless as things could possibly get in a movie called All Is Lost, the movie is essentially about perseverance: playing it smart, staying safe and not giving up until -- well, see the title. |
| 248591 | Jason Bailey | Flavorwire | Fresh | — | 2016-06-18T20:14:27.000Z | 2016-06-18 20:14:27 | A vital, exciting piece of work from Mr. Redford, an actor whom you'd have been forgiven for counting out by now. |
| 248592 | Kong Rithdee | Bangkok Post | Fresh | — | 2016-05-10T17:13:16.000Z | 2016-05-10 17:13:16 | The success of All Is Lost is to be a physical film that ends up with emotional reverberation, right down to the last shot that engulfs us and Our Man in the depths of the ocean, with only a faint light shining from above. |
| 248593 | David 'Mad Dog' Bradley | Rip It Up | Fresh | 4/5 | 2015-11-09T19:45:40.000Z | 2015-11-09 19:45:40 | Like Gravity, this actually offers the greatest story of them all: one person's fight to stay alive. |
| 248594 | Blake Howard | 2UE That Movie Show | Fresh | 4/5 | 2015-01-13T14:27:25.000Z | 2015-01-13 14:27:25 | All is Lost is outstanding and so the collaboration between Redford and writer/director J.C Chandor. |
| 248595 | Clayton Davis | AwardsCircuit.com | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2014-07-06T17:06:37.000Z | 2014-07-06 17:06:37 | Frank G. DeMarco and Peter Zuccarini, dual cinematographers, gather gorgeous imagery especially those captured from beneath the ocean's surface. |
| 248596 | Colin Biggs | Movie Mezzanine | Fresh | B | 2014-05-05T12:51:19.000Z | 2014-05-05 12:51:19 | Chandor never overplays his hand, and in doing so he creates a worthy portrait of a man in a dire situation that resonates with us all. |
| 248597 | Ray Pride | Newcity | Fresh | — | 2014-04-05T13:34:30.000Z | 2014-04-05 13:34:30 | once Robert Redford is on screen, his muted, exasperated, hopeful performance is an exemplar of the physical. Our Man seems a man of reckless wealth and expansive estrangement: why is he at sea? Begging the larger question, why are we all at sea? |
| 248598 | Wesley Lovell | Cinema Sight | Fresh | 3/4 | 2014-03-24T19:37:08.000Z | 2014-03-24 19:37:08 | A commanding performance by Robert Redford with nary a word spoken. It makes up for the somewhat tedious running time. |
| 248599 | Jim Schembri | 3AW | Fresh | 5/5 | 2014-03-09T16:31:30.000Z | 2014-03-09 16:31:30 | Superb, a brilliantly conceived, first-person masterpiece, totally immersive and compelling from first frame to last. It's easily one of the best survival films ever made, even with Gravity dominating everybody's praise. |
| 248600 | Pablo Villaça | Cinema em Cena | Fresh | 5/5 | 2014-03-07T03:24:57.000Z | 2014-03-07 03:24:57 | O rosto envelhecido, marcado e expressivo (e ainda belo) de Redford comunica uma infinidade de ideias e sentimentos com o mnimo esforo. |
| 248601 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Fresh | — | 2014-03-06T17:08:36.000Z | 2014-03-06 17:08:36 | Mark his name down as one to watch. Chandor could potentially turn out to be as fresh and innovative a talent of the likes of Christopher Nolan and Spike Jonze in the near future. |
| 248602 | Anthony Morris | The Vine | Fresh | — | 2014-03-05T16:40:25.000Z | 2014-03-05 16:40:25 | This works just fine viewed as a stripped back tale of survival against the odds. The ending is the only moment where the metaphorical comes to the fore, and even then it's really just a matter of how literally you want to take the title. |
| 248603 | Damien Straker | Impulse Gamer | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-03-05T13:29:31.000Z | 2014-03-05 13:29:31 | This film makes an excellent case that sometimes less can be so much more. |
| 248604 | Cameron Williams | The Popcorn Junkie | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-03-04T20:50:30.000Z | 2014-03-04 20:50:30 | A subtle meditation on mind, body and spirit that's imbued with an aching amount of futility and loneliness |
| 248605 | Dan Jardine | Cinemania | Fresh | 79/100 | 2014-03-04T20:08:29.000Z | 2014-03-04 20:08:29 | The low tech nature of All is Lost accentuates the primal (physical) nature of this struggle, while the technical prowess of Gravity emphasizes its more metaphysical (and less interesting) nature |
| 248606 | Craig Mathieson | The Sunday Age | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-03-04T14:21:56.000Z | 2014-03-04 14:21:56 | All is Lost makes the familiar strikingly new. The filmmaker and his star hold their nerve, refusing easy outs and making you look - and listen - carefully to a starkly pure piece of cinema. |
| 248607 | Matthew Toomey | ABC Radio (Australia) | Fresh | A- | 2014-03-02T00:14:51.000Z | 2014-03-02 00:14:51 | If you're slightly intrigued by the premise, find the time to see All Is Lost. It's taking a chance and trying to give us something different. |
| 248608 | Andrew L. Urban | Urban Cinefile | Fresh | — | 2014-03-01T20:25:44.000Z | 2014-03-01 20:25:44 | Full of detail, the film is almost claustrophobic at times as we stay inside the cabin of the yacht while the ocean heaves outside, the wind howls, the boat shrieks... it's a unique work |
| 248609 | Louise Keller | Urban Cinefile | Fresh | — | 2014-03-01T20:25:31.000Z | 2014-03-01 20:25:31 | Uncluttered by narrative or dialogue, Robert Redford gives an astounding performance - spending most of the film literally and psychologically hanging on |
| 248610 | David Stratton | The Australian | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2014-02-28T16:41:40.000Z | 2014-02-28 16:41:40 | It's a rare example of pure cinema, and that, in itself, gives it a stature to which few Hollywood films these days aspire. |
| 248611 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-02-28T15:53:55.000Z | 2014-02-28 15:53:55 | Chandor has produced a minimalist gem. |
| 248612 | Tom Clift | FILMINK (Australia) | Fresh | — | 2014-02-21T16:48:13.000Z | 2014-02-21 16:48:13 | This is the most compelling tale of nautical peril since Steven Spielberg's Jaws. |
| 248613 | Linda Cook | Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | Fresh | 4/4 | 2014-02-21T00:55:37.000Z | 2014-02-21 00:55:37 | 'Captain Phillips' wasn't the only see-worthy vessel of 2013. |
| 248614 | Matt Glasby | Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-02-20T18:24:27.000Z | 2014-02-20 18:24:27 | We (and he) know he's screwed. The tension comes from establishing just how badly. |
| 248615 | Jeff Beck | Examiner.com | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2014-02-10T07:29:23.000Z | 2014-02-10 07:29:23 | Chandor clearly wanted to make something powerful and engrossing, but due to the simplistic nature of the film, what he ended up with was something dull and forgettable. |
| 248616 | Michael Koresky | Sight & Sound | Fresh | — | 2014-02-06T18:24:21.000Z | 2014-02-06 18:24:21 | The film attains an operatic grandeur in its closing moments, and surprisingly earns it: Chandor's intensely physical, experiential work has brought us right up to the perilous edge between life and death. |
| 248617 | Simon Miraudo | Quickflix | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2014-02-02T23:02:59.000Z | 2014-02-02 23:02:59 | The most remarkable feat in J.C. Chandor's stranded-in-the-sea survival story All Is Lost is star Robert Redford's ability to shave on open water. |
| 248618 | Kam Williams | Baret News | Fresh | 3/4 | 2014-01-26T14:20:43.000Z | 2014-01-26 14:20:43 | The Old Man IN the Sea! |
| 248619 | Matthew Sorrento | Film International | Fresh | 9/10 | 2014-01-14T09:35:33.000Z | 2014-01-14 09:35:33 | (Redford) is quite effective in the film's slower moments, while thoroughly rattled when reacting to the elements. |
| 248620 | Michael Dequina | TheMovieReport.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2014-01-11T22:27:20.000Z | 2014-01-11 22:27:20 | So threadbare that there's nothing to grasp onto to care about. |
| 248621 | Joe Utichi | FilmFocus | Fresh | — | 2014-01-05T04:17:38.000Z | 2014-01-05 04:17:38 | We've seen this story before, but Chandor dares to construct it so far from convention, and, surprisingly, it resonates come closer to home in the process. |
| 248622 | Ed Whitfield | The Ooh Tray | Fresh | — | 2014-01-03T11:27:38.000Z | 2014-01-03 11:27:38 | A drama full of intrigue, built on close identification with the imperilled floater. |
| 248623 | Donald Clarke | Irish Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-01-01T13:27:16.000Z | 2014-01-01 13:27:16 | Gravity's great weakness was the unnecessarily abundant corny dialogue. All Is Lost is makes no such compromises. |
| 248624 | Jordan Hiller | Bangitout.com | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2013-12-31T10:19:02.000Z | 2013-12-31 10:19:02 | As the film goes on, we see Redford in a new light. A light dimmer and paler and murkier. Once a golden god on screen, there now remains a hobbled everyman. |
| 248625 | Xan Brooks | Observer (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-30T05:34:59.000Z | 2013-12-30 05:34:59 | Who is this sailor? Where does he come from? Chandor never sees fit to tell us. His hero remains a deliberate stencil, defined solely by the crisis around him and the actions he takes. |
| 248626 | Graham Young | Birmingham Mail | Fresh | 5/5 | 2013-12-27T12:57:35.000Z | 2013-12-27 12:57:35 | the film generates a wonderful sense of claustrophobia on the open sea. Imagine a movie with the lyrical beauty of a Terrence Malick project crossed with the virtuosity of Tom Hanks in Cast Away. |
| 248627 | Andy Lea | Daily Star (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-12-27T00:32:52.000Z | 2013-12-27 00:32:52 | Technically, this is a hugely impressive film but it still left me feeling a little underwhelmed. |
| 248628 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-26T05:42:45.000Z | 2013-12-26 05:42:45 | [Redford] speaks barely a handful of lines in All Is Lost, but the film still manages to feel like an internal monologue, a conversation between one man and himself. |
| 248629 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-26T05:41:30.000Z | 2013-12-26 05:41:30 | The utter solitude is almost vertiginous. |
| 248630 | Nigel Andrews | Financial Times | Fresh | 5/5 | 2013-12-26T05:40:27.000Z | 2013-12-26 05:40:27 | Chandor's movie gives us the Hemingwayish essentials and then some. |
| 248631 | Sophie Monks Kaufman | Little White Lies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-12-24T08:52:24.000Z | 2013-12-24 08:52:24 | There's something powerful lurking in the deep. |
| 248632 | Matthew Turner | ViewLondon | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-24T08:51:28.000Z | 2013-12-24 08:51:28 | Impressively paced and superbly shot, this is a powerful and ultimately terrifying drama with stunning sound design work and an Oscar-worthy performance from Robert Redford. |
| 248633 | John Nugent | Sky Cinema | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-24T08:45:14.000Z | 2013-12-24 08:45:14 | At a time when filmmakers are desperately throwing everything at the screen and seeing what sticks, it's refreshing to see a film like All Is Lost come along and turn the more-is-more formula on its head. |
| 248634 | John Hanlon | John Hanlon Reviews | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-12-24T08:43:29.000Z | 2013-12-24 08:43:29 | This beautifully-directed drama succeeds to a certain experimental extent but drags on for a bit too long. |
| 248635 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 5/10 | 2013-12-23T18:59:02.000Z | 2013-12-23 18:59:02 | If you are a big Robert Redford fan you should eat this movie up since he is the only person in the movie. The downside, he is the only person in the movie. |
| 248636 | Kevin Harley | Total Film | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-23T11:52:04.000Z | 2013-12-23 11:52:04 | With no 3D, no friends and no hope, Redford and Chandor show how survivalist instincts can stoke thrilling, thoughtful cinema. |
| 248637 | Felix Vasquez Jr. | Cinema Crazed | Fresh | — | 2013-12-21T02:28:02.000Z | 2013-12-21 02:28:02 | A very beautiful and intense piece of survival drama... |
| 248638 | Rich Cline | Contactmusic.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-12-20T07:20:02.000Z | 2013-12-20 07:20:02 | After the award-winning Margin Call, writer-director J.C. Chandor shifts gears completely for this fiercely detailed one-man survival drama. |
| 248639 | Philip Concannon | The Skinny | Fresh | 5/5 | 2013-12-20T04:56:08.000Z | 2013-12-20 04:56:08 | [Redford] gives a commanding performance as the nameless protagonist that makes the complete lack of characterisation an irrelevance. |
| 248640 | David Sexton | London Evening Standard | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-12-20T04:51:27.000Z | 2013-12-20 04:51:27 | All Is Lost is very pure film-making, set entirely on the water, without dialogue, just showing us the man's fight to survive from moment to moment. |
| 248641 | Jay Antani | Cinema Writer | Rotten | 2/4 | 2013-12-17T22:23:33.000Z | 2013-12-17 22:23:33 | the Cliffs Notes version of the deeper, more profound character study that never transpires on-screen |
| 248642 | Mitch Lillie | Willamette Week | Fresh | B | 2013-12-16T17:39:45.000Z | 2013-12-16 17:39:45 | This is one man, alone, facing death. Redford is playing himself, and he's not playing around. |
| 248643 | Geoffrey Macnab | Independent (UK) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2013-12-16T17:37:26.000Z | 2013-12-16 17:37:26 | It's the detail and precision of his storytelling style that makes All Is Lost so engrossing. |
| 248644 | Jeff Meyers | Metro Times (Detroit, MI) | Fresh | A- | 2013-12-16T17:35:49.000Z | 2013-12-16 17:35:49 | [Redford] brings both physicality and emotion to the role, subtly shifting from anger to surprise to despair. It's a completely naturalistic performance, stripped of ego or artifice, and you often forget you're watching a Hollywood icon. |
| 248645 | Jim Lane | Sacramento News & Review | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-16T17:26:48.000Z | 2013-12-16 17:26:48 | It's not as tense as Gravity, but just as suspenseful, and almost as exhilarating. |
| 248646 | Dave White | Movies.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-16T17:24:21.000Z | 2013-12-16 17:24:21 | Stylistically it's a serious about-face from director J. C. Chandor, whose excellent debut feature Margin Call was stuffed with actors as Wall Street types talking a mile a minute. |
| 248647 | Chris Hewitt (UK) | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 5/5 | 2013-12-16T17:22:31.000Z | 2013-12-16 17:22:31 | A triumph of pure cinema and wonderful visual storytelling from Chandor, who must now be considered the real deal, while Redford is sublime in what could well be the performance of his career. |
| 248648 | Michael Smith | Tulsa World | Fresh | 4/4 | 2013-12-16T17:17:20.000Z | 2013-12-16 17:17:20 | All is Lost is superior craftsmanship on the part of the filmmaker and his star, making a late-in-life "coming of age" story that transitions into a man's twilight and burns bright. |
| 248649 | Matt Patches | IGN Movies | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2013-12-16T16:59:01.000Z | 2013-12-16 16:59:01 | All Is Lost boils down the art of filmmaking to the essential parts, making even the slightest decisions evident and powerful. |
| 248650 | Bruce Kirkland | Jam! Movies | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-12-16T16:48:45.000Z | 2013-12-16 16:48:45 | As written and directed by young American filmmaker J.C. Chandor, All is Lost is a classic case of man-against-nature. |
| 248651 | Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle | Rotten | 2/4 | 2013-12-16T16:43:03.000Z | 2013-12-16 16:43:03 | Even Redford bailing water for 106 minutes can be a bit much. |
| 248652 | Nathan Southern | TV Guide | Fresh | 4/4 | 2013-12-16T16:40:55.000Z | 2013-12-16 16:40:55 | The movie has the feel of a beautifully conceived and elegantly composed short story with a remarkable and consistently surprising degree of emotional resonance. |
| 248653 | James Kendrick | Q Network Film Desk | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-12-11T21:29:22.000Z | 2013-12-11 21:29:22 | if the film maintains our attention, it is simply because we connect with the base desire to survive, which embodied by someone like Robert Redford becomes all the more gripping |
| 248654 | Wesley Morris | Grantland | Fresh | — | 2013-12-10T14:24:00.000Z | 2013-12-10 14:24:00 | This is an uncommonly absorbing movie. |
| 248655 | Allan Hunter | The List | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-12-09T08:11:06.000Z | 2013-12-09 08:11:06 | [Redford] barely utters a word and yet manages to give one of the finest performances of his long career. |
| 248656 | Mark R. Leeper | Mark Leeper's Reviews | Fresh | 8/10 | 2013-12-08T10:24:25.000Z | 2013-12-08 10:24:25 | a film of action and suspense with no guns and no villains but the sea and an inevitable death. |
| 248657 | Eric Melin | Scene-Stealers.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-12-06T05:43:55.000Z | 2013-12-06 05:43:55 | The key ingredient to the film's success is Redford's vulnerability. He's trying so desperately to stay alive that he has few moments for reflection, but they register - and all without the aid of dialogue. |
| 248658 | John Beifuss | Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2013-12-01T18:19:45.000Z | 2013-12-01 18:19:45 | The movie pares its man-vs.-the elements, man-vs.-himself theme to the barest bones, yet it's timely as well as timeless, as Chandor acknowledges the coldness of the corporate as well as natural environment. |
| 248659 | Bill Clark | FromTheBalcony | Rotten | C | 2013-12-01T10:59:29.000Z | 2013-12-01 10:59:29 | All Is Lost should have been a movie that has you thinking for days; instead it ends with a brief sigh of relief and a shrug. |
| 248660 | Bruce Bennett | Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Fresh | B | 2013-11-21T15:37:49.000Z | 2013-11-21 15:37:49 | Low on narrative but an exciting, incredibly filmed misadventure nonetheless. |
| 248661 | Lori Hoffman | Atlantic City Weekly | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-11-21T13:08:59.000Z | 2013-11-21 13:08:59 | Redford's now leathery exterior is in such contrast to his once striking youthful good looks yet there is still beauty in that well worn face. |
| 248662 | Rick Kisonak | Seven Days (VT) | Fresh | — | 2013-11-20T07:52:17.000Z | 2013-11-20 07:52:17 | This shipwreck isn't a train wreck by any means, but, in the case of the writer-director's sophomore outing, less really is less. All Is Lost winds up nautical miles from all it might have been. |
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