"Dark Money" exposes the dangers of unbridled, anonymous political spending so expertly that it will make you fume with anger, practically quake with distress.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2018

The film's basic problem is that it jumps around too much... Still, Reed and her team have boiled down their presentation to a manageable 99 minutes that's fascinating, absorbing, and mind-altering.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2018

The undue influence of money on elections is not exactly news, but the ways in which that influence can now be secured, given the current state of the law, certainly is.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 27, 2018

"Dark Money" takes a detailed look at an unexpectedly complex situation that is at the heart of political action today.

| Jul 26, 2018

Activist in tone, and paced like a thriller, Reed's movie painstakingly details how an election can be brusquely seized and swayed by unseen forces.

| Jul 26, 2018

Engrossing, lucid, and unsettling...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2018

Damning, clear-eyed, and as gripping as any John Grisham thriller.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 19, 2018

[It] will either bore you to death or boil your blood. As a Washington political junkie, I fall into the latter camp. Your results may vary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 19, 2018

It's not an insult to call this an exemplary PBS documentary; let's just say you should make sure you are really in the MOOD for a PBS doc before you check out Dark Money.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 13, 2018

There's not a dull or dry moment in Reed's briskly paced film about the secret assault on the American electoral and judicial process by corporations whose agenda is nothing less than the dismantling of government itself.

| Jul 12, 2018

A documentary that is by turns engaging, exasperating and confusing.

| Jul 12, 2018

Kimberly Reed's approach is too bloodless to make us feel the full weight of the injustices her film identifies.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2018

Reed's sophomore feature is straightforward reportage, telling a complex, multi-issue story with a large number of players, in admirably cogent terms.

| Apr 4, 2018

A densely packed documentary that earnestly and obsessively addresses campaign finance reform, its history and vital importance.

| Jan 31, 2018