An intelligent piece of investigative journalism and an educational journey back into the past...

| Oct 11, 2024

The documentary can crackle along with the best journalism capers, but also carries a pang of regret for the decline of traditional media.

| Feb 11, 2022

Dark Money should be required viewing.

| Jul 24, 2020

The movie is expertly researched and informative and provides a clear timeline and path toward the destruction of our democracy if these practices remain unchecked. It may not be your idea of the perfect summer movie, but it's a powerful documentary.

| Jun 20, 2020

Director Kimberly Reed has made one of the most important films in years.

| Jun 1, 2020

This Sundance-heralded doc is at times a lot of fun, but it never lets us forget that the joke could be on us.

| Jun 1, 2020

However, where Dark Money succeeds is where so many other political docs fail: it offers a buffet of solutions to the problem at heart, and all seem feasible enough to inspire action from even the most skeptical political cynics.

| Mar 20, 2020

Director Kimberly Reed smartly grabs our attention by using the gorgeous and thinly populated state of Montana as a microcosm for the ongoing corruption of the election process.

| Jan 23, 2020

Using the serene beauty of the Montana mountains as a backdrop for the pulsing thriller, Adams acts as the film's heartbeat...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2019

Reed does a masterful job pulling this all together, letting the people in Montana speak, and allowing the audience to draw their own conclusions about the national problem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Excellent political docu has infrequent profanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2018

There's a lot of information, but it's all given proper context with which to comprehend its explosive ramifications.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 13, 2018

A refreshing reminder that Montana has never lost the anti-corporate ethos that enabled it to pass a law in 1912 banning Koch brothers type campaign funding.

| Nov 28, 2018

Though it's uneven in its execution, its informative narrative however has an impact and is worth seeing.

| Original Score: B | Nov 25, 2018

Bone chilling and eye opening.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 11, 2018

The film does a great job in explaining and reminding the audience how dark money works in different scenarios, throughout the unfolding of the film's journeys

| Nov 11, 2018

An expose of how political campaigns are being funded with little or no disclosure of where the money is coming from.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 11, 2018

[Dark Money] provides a scary look at the future of American politics while making the clear case against this kind of corruption

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2018

Dark Money does succeed in presenting a strong case for campaign finance reform.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 30, 2018

Reed's investigation becomes an inadvertent sequel to Merchants of Doubt, which emphasizes how corporate big money has influenced politics through lobbying groups.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2018