Bryan Fogel, the Oscar-winning director of "Icarus," returns with "The Row," a documentary chronicling ultra-endurance athlete Tez Steinberg's attempt to row solo across the Pacific. Reviewed for The Hollywood Reporter, the 87-minute film draws comparisons to "Free Solo" in the way it immerses audiences in physically punishing, borderline reckless human feats, though the review suggests the film is more visually gripping than intellectually satisfying, as its themes of grief, trauma and masculinity are raised without being fully explored.

Steinberg, a veteran of 47 marathons, two Iron Man triathlons and a 145-mile ultra-marathon, set out to row a hand-built 23-foot boat roughly 2,500 miles from California to Hawaii following his father's death, before later undertaking an even longer and more emotionally fraught second voyage. Much of the footage comes from cameras Steinberg operated himself at sea, supplemented by animation for moments narration alone cannot convey, while editors Justin Krook, Collin Kriner and RJ Buckley balance visceral tension with moments of eerie calm. The review notes Fogel joined the project between Steinberg's two voyages and includes land-based interviews, but observes the director never pushes his subject to confront the "tunnel vision" driving him.