Thriller

Adrift

By Filipe Freitas | October 2018

Adrift is an uneven survival drama co-produced and directed by a connoisseur in the genre, the Icelandic Baltasar Kormakur (The Deep; Everest)….

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Adrift is an uneven survival drama co-produced and directed by a connoisseur in the genre, the Icelandic Baltasar Kormakur (The Deep; Everest). It was...

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