Row

When a battered and blood-spattered rowing vessel washes ashore on a rocky, windswept Scottish isle, the boat’s lone surviving passenger, terrified and disoriented Megan (Bella Dayne), struggles to piece together her fragmented memories of events at sea—and the fate that befell the three crewmates with whom she departed from Newfoundland weeks earlier, embarking on an ambitious attempt to complete a North Atlantic crossing in record time. The ensuing interrogation sets the stage for an intricate series of scattered flashbacks, revealing perilous interpersonal fault lines that threaten to fracture the fragile cohesion of the crew, which includes driven, uncompromising captain Dan (Akshay Khanna), Megan’s old friend Lexie (Sophie Skelton), and taciturn last-minute newcomer Mike (Nick Skaugen), who may or may not be on the run from authorities after murdering his girlfriend. British Australian director Matthew Losasso’s first feature, co-written by Losasso and Skaugen, is an ingeniously constructed new entry in the grand tradition of maritime huis clos ensemble thrillers, a worthy successor to the likes of Lifeboat and Dead Calm.