"The solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre." -- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS   "Lauren Ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters, this is a coming-of-age story with a twist." -- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM   "A coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood." -- Bill Gallo, NEW TIMES   "A gracefully acted, unsentimental, quite likable little coming-of-age movie." -- John Hartl, SEATTLE TIMES   "Flawed, but worth seeing for Ambrose's performance." -- Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN   "Makes 98 minutes feel like three hours." -- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS   "[Siegel] and co-writers Lisa Bazadona and Grace Woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround Frankie." -- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY   Click to read the article. -- Kevin Thomas, JOURNAL NEWS

Hot Pick   "Building slowly and subtly, the film, sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations, develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise." -- Robert Payne, REEL.COM

Cream of the Crop FRESH 87% Avg. Rating: 7/10   "Swimming isn't a major film. Nor does it try to be. But what, in the end, is a major film? If it's one that accomplishes what it sets out to do, then we ought to correct ourselves." -- John Anderson, NEWSDAY   "If you can get past familiarity with the genre, you'll find a gently realized movie that makes good use of a well-selected cast." -- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS   "A refreshingly realistic, affectation-free coming-of-age tale." -- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS   "Swimming is above all about a young woman's face, and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman's doubts and yearnings, it succeeds." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES   "The most impressive quality of this charming movie is the way the characters, who are all recognizable 'types,' refuse to behave the way we expect." -- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE   "Impresses you with its open-endedness and surprises." -- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST   "An unusually dry-eyed, even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture." -- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES   "A well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity." -- Loren King, CHICAGO TRIBUNE   "Well-meant but unoriginal." -- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS   "Keenly observed and refreshingly natural, Swimming gets the details right, from its promenade of barely clad bodies in Myrtle Beach, S.C., to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner." -- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE   "The volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried, low-key film that is so off-Hollywood that it seems positively French in its rhythms and resonance." -- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER   "The town has kind of an authentic feel, but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial." -- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER   "The film is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo, but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking, quietly vulnerable personality of Ms. Ambrose." -- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER   "As relationships shift, director Robert J. Siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc." -- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE   "A refreshingly authentic coming-of-age tale." -- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST