‘At the Sea’ Review: Amy Adams’ Commitment Can’t Save a Recovery Drama as Immediately Forgettable as Its Title
Variety | 17.02.2026 00:15
Drop the definite article and you have a more apt title for “At the Sea,” a drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it. The second English-language feature from Hungarian virtuoso Kornél Mundruczó, it promises on paper a similarly potent female character study to his first: 2020’s “Pieces of a Woman,” a harrowing but humane study of trauma from stillbirth that handed the role of a lifetime to Vanessa Kirby, who duly picked up an Oscar nomination for her wrenching turn. Based on that film alone, one can see why any A-list actress would take a meeting with Mundruczó, and so it is that Amy Adams headlines this story of a wealthy mother, wife and artist struggling to regain control of her life after six months in rehab for alcoholism.
