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The Doc Option: Instead of ‘All is Lost,’ Watch ‘Deep Water’

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Christopher Campbell
Nov 14, 2013
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Currently in theaters is All is Lost, a one-man play starring Robert Redford as a nameless man adrift on a yacht in the ocean. The film has earned rave reviews for Redford’s studied, nearly wordless performance, its cinematography and its existential tone. But I couldn’t appreciate it as much more than a well-told survival story. It doesn’t help that, a…

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