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Dark Waters powerfully relays a real-life tale of infuriating malfeasance, honoring the victims and laying blame squarely at the feet of the perpetrators.
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Bilott's story is a serious one and demands a responsible retelling. Fortunately, Haynes finds a way to do so without mistaking such a weighty task as an excuse to be plodding or bone-dry procedural. Dec 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Bilott's story is a serious one and demands a responsible retelling. Fortunately, Haynes finds a way to do so without mistaking such a weighty task as an excuse to be plodding or bone-dry procedural.
Barry Hertz
It's a David and Goliath story with a central figure who knows what's right and keeps chipping away, bit by bit, until he gets to the truth. Dec 1, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It's a David and Goliath story with a central figure who knows what's right and keeps chipping away, bit by bit, until he gets to the truth.
Adam Graham
It's enough to make you want to chuck all of your non-stick and waterproofed products after seeing this movie. Nov 29, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's enough to make you want to chuck all of your non-stick and waterproofed products after seeing this movie.
Peter Howell
Robert is every bit as determined as any underdog attorney in recent movie history. Nov 26, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Robert is every bit as determined as any underdog attorney in recent movie history.
Richard Roeper
Haynes also provides a sense of crushing dread-the kind of unsolvable paranoia these procedure-bound movies usually work to counter. Nov 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Haynes also provides a sense of crushing dread-the kind of unsolvable paranoia these procedure-bound movies usually work to counter.
David Sims
"Dark Waters" doesn't aspire to be something it's not. Like Bilott himself, it gets the job done, not by showboating, but by laying out the facts. Nov 26, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
"Dark Waters" doesn't aspire to be something it's not. Like Bilott himself, it gets the job done, not by showboating, but by laying out the facts.
Michael O'Sullivan
This is far from inspiring ... and that's exactly the point. Dec 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This is far from inspiring ... and that's exactly the point.
Mark Dujsik
Ruffalo and Haynes have stripped away a significant proportion of what makes their work distinctive in what looks like a mistaken opinion that style is not serious. Dec 5, 2019 | Rating: B + | Full Review…
Ruffalo and Haynes have stripped away a significant proportion of what makes their work distinctive in what looks like a mistaken opinion that style is not serious.
Nell Minow
Keeping audience interest in a knotty legal matter that stretches out over many years is no easy matter; Haynes pulls it off by establishing a growing sense of dread which comes to a head in a chilling postscript. Dec 5, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Keeping audience interest in a knotty legal matter that stretches out over many years is no easy matter; Haynes pulls it off by establishing a growing sense of dread which comes to a head in a chilling postscript.
Robert W. Butler
And while all of this proves fascinating, it's the quiet sense of rage that courses through the film, that director Todd Haynes consistently stokes, that makes "Waters" the best of the recent spate of social justice films. Dec 5, 2019 | Rating: 4.0/4.0 | Full Review…
And while all of this proves fascinating, it's the quiet sense of rage that courses through the film, that director Todd Haynes consistently stokes, that makes "Waters" the best of the recent spate of social justice films.
Charles Koplinski
Few actors play the scrupulous good guy as reliably or believably as Ruffalo, who leads the film with a quiet, fragile dignity. Dec 4, 2019 | Rating: 3.5 | Full Review…
Few actors play the scrupulous good guy as reliably or believably as Ruffalo, who leads the film with a quiet, fragile dignity.
Hope Madden
This all-too-conventional 'whistleblower' saga, revolving around a sincere social activist, gets bogged down in dull procedural trivia. Dec 4, 2019 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
This all-too-conventional 'whistleblower' saga, revolving around a sincere social activist, gets bogged down in dull procedural trivia.
Susan Granger
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