'The Impossible': Mother's angle softens tale's too-narrow focus ★★★

Everything that was false about the tsunami sequence in the recent Clint Eastwood film "Hereafter" — the bland overview perspectives, the lack of human immediacy — is corrected, terrifyingly, by the first half-hour of director J.A. Bayona's nerve-shredding docudrama "The Impossible."

Michael Phillips

December 20, 2012