The film and the novel also diverge in important ways as they reach their dramatic conclusions. Read on to find out more about how the ending of Deep Water compares to that of Highsmith’s book.

Deep Water movie review: Real life ex-lovers Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas find themselves in a toxic marriage in Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name.

While Deep Water is pulpy enough with sex and violence and excellent-looking people feverishly coupling or throwing sultry glances and/or punches at each other, there is none of that red heat ...

Deep Water has satirical tendencies, yet the banal dialogue and clunky/confusing plot means we laugh at it, not with it. Melinda, for all de Armas’ passionate intensity, is a stereotype: the ...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in erotic thriller Deep Water, streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Cinema's foremost modern purveyor of the erotic thriller attempts to bring the almost-extinct sub-genre ...

More sacrilegiously, Deep Water fails as an adaption of a classic Patricia Highsmith novel (one of her very best). Vic and Melinda Van Allen have come to an awkward arrangement.

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The film has since been declared a neo-film noir masterpiece by its fans, and a belated sequel arrived in 2006. Sadly, the erotic ship had already sailed.

Streaming ‘Deep Water’ review: Ben Affleck-Ana De Armas starrer paddles in the shallows Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel is out on Amazon Prime Video.