Whalefall Lands 79% Rotten Tomatoes Score on 56 Reviews Ahead of October 16 Release
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Oct 14
Whalefall Lands 79% Rotten Tomatoes Score on 56 Reviews Ahead of October 16 Release
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Oct 14
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Whalefall opened with a 79% Rotten Tomatoes score from 56 reviews two days before its October 16 theatrical release.
That reception is solid but modest within Josh Brolin's catalog, where the survival thriller currently ranks No. 20 among his films.
Austin Abrams leads as scuba diver Jay Gardiner, who is swallowed by a sperm whale off California's Central Coast and has one hour of oxygen to escape.
Critics highlighted Abrams' performance and the film's father-son emotional core, with flashbacks to lessons from Jay's late father—played by Brolin—driving the survival story.