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Dark Waters

2019

Todd Haynes

Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp ...

6.8

10,831

Drama A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Restraining himself throughout from getting fancy or experimental, Haynes has intently devoted himself to the story and his actors, with strong, unshowy work that ideally serves the tale being told"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A feel-good movie and a feel-disturbed movie at the same time (...)Todd Haynes has made the first corporate thriller that’s a call to action because you’ll emerge from it feeling anything but safe."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"The most conventional directing effort in Haynes’ career (...) a 20-year-old drama that extends into the present, and as environmental concerns continue to escalate, it couldn’t feel more contemporary"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A movie that is anything but the same old legal thriller (...) What makes it a Haynes film is something intangible and mysterious (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Luke Hicks The Playlist	"Haynes does a terrific job conveying the depression and hopelessness that comes with taking on sick, greedy, inhumane, Earth-devouring institutions"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"It’s exceedingly well executed and technically impeccable, with precisely shot (by Edward Lachman), near-abstract, dehumanized cityscapes (...) The movie slides into banality"	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"What the hell is Todd Haynes doing behind the camera of generic docudrama Dark Waters?"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"This quietly galvanising film harks back to the powerful social issue dramas of the 1970s (...) this is the most resounding defence of the legal industry since Atticus Finch"	POS
United States	Michael Joshua Rowin Slant	"Aside from its color scheme, there isn’t much in the film that’s particularly or uniquely cinematic (...) But perhaps it’s to Haynes’s credit that he lets the drama speak for itself (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"It’s a decent movie in its own grim (...) and inarguably a story worth telling"	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"Strong and involving, though understated (...) For all its patience and droll humor, this is an angry movie, rightly so (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"['Dark Waters'] is 'Zodiac' but the killer is drinking water (...) [A] timely if not innovative piece of environmental muckraking."	NEU
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"It moves with precision and clarity from office spaces to outdoor spaces to home spaces"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"A stirring and infuriating story"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Given the talent involved, this drama about a quiet but deadly environmental disaster should have been more gripping (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"[You will leave with] a palpable sense of fury (...) It’s a film that works best as a two-hour assault on DuPont, a chemical company with toxic blood all over its hands (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"This subject matter deserves better (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"Haynes argues eloquently for the power of empathy. And, in 'Dark Waters', he bathes his audience in pure terror like very few other directors could (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Hunneysett Mirror	"Mark Ruffalo uses his intelligence, understated charm, and ability to project decency and integrity (...) A powerful and hugely disturbing watch (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"This is the kind of issue-driven cinema that used to win Oscars (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"Competent but formulaic, 'Dark Waters' only really gets interesting in the third act, and then it ends (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Alan Corr RTÉ	"The director and his leading man have turned a dry legal battle into a gripping yarn (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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