A Bigger Splash

Realized with extraordinary craft and verve even if insufficiently contextualized, A Bigger Splash might not have achieved the desired impact, but the wicked spell it casts remains a bona-fide stunner.

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This reworking of the 1969 erotic thriller La Piscine beautifully explores the difficulties of communication.

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A magnificent Ralph Fiennes continues his comic renaissance in this sun-baked, style-drenched thriller.

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Even so, it’s a lush and intriguing experience that works so well for so long that it can’t be undone by a few flaws.

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Luca Guadagnino's follow-up to 'I Am Love' is a sly and wildly unpredictable erotic thriller.

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The world that Mr. Guadagnino creates is at once seductive and aspirational, and another reminder that movies have always excelled at stoking consumer desires.

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The latest film from I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino is a four-way study of sex and jealousy that boasts outstanding performances from its two British stars.

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Luca Guadagnino’s moody drama A Bigger Splash is, unexpectedly, a study in charisma, with two wildly different performances at its center.

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Simultaneously lush and lurid, sumptuous and startling, “A Bigger Splash” never goes where you expect, even as its undercurrent of danger is unmistakable from the start.

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Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes are aging rockers in the beguiling, muddled A Bigger Splash.

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What intrigues, if in a lurid sort of way, is the film's fudging of projected viewer desires with its characters'.

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Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes make beautiful music together as reunited rock veterans — and Dakota Johnson gets a better showcase than “Fifty Shades of Grey’’ — in the sizzling erotic thriller “A Bigger Splash.’’

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And as the hyperactive houseguest from hell, Fiennes exudes charisma and confidence but with an undercurrent of something close to sinister.

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It has a boisterous quality that was missing from its emotionally buttoned-up predecessor, I Am Love.

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Fiennes delivers some of the best work of his illustrious career as an annoying yet tender old friend, and ingénue Johnson is certainly better served here than by Fifty Shades of Grey.

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All this wanton behavior sparks such giddy pleasure that the film's eventual tonal shift feels especially deflating.

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Dakota Johnson and Ralph Fiennes turn up the heat when they visit rock legend Tilda Swinton on a Mediterranean island.

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