50
Both provocative and awkwardly arty.
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What are critics saying?
50
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Dour and bleak, yet this melodrama -- which doesn't amount to much of anything -- may stick with you.
50
Beyond the Ocean, which at its best is reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger in Paradise," doesn't integrate its two story lines in a particularly satisfying manner and the ending is somewhat abrupt.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Despite its floating narrative, this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film.
40
Ultimately sinks beneath the waves of the Caspian Sea.
50
Doesn't have the content to match the form, never cohering into anything more substantial than a glum navel-gazer about a little girl lost, unable to find a permanent home (literally or figuratively) on either side of the Atlantic.