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Dark River Reviews
The kind of movie that mistakes rumbling storm clouds and restless sheep for plot development.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 29, 2018
Even in the swelling canon of British rural miserabilism, this unrelentingly intense psychodrama burrows beneath the skin.
| Jun 28, 2018
"Dark River" is a forgettable title for a movie that's anything but.
| Jun 28, 2018
It's a beautifully crafted, moodily evocative film that's missing just one spark of true inspiration.
| Original Score: B- | Jun 27, 2018
While Clio Barnard so masterfully limns her protagonist's tortured soul, the brother-sister drama at the center of the film remains frustratingly hazy.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 25, 2018
Dark fare indeed, and you won't shake it off easily.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2018
An impressive murder ballad.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2018
On the whole, despite not being able to tick all the boxes, Dark River still manages to be intriguing, deeply engaging and fantastically well acted.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2018
Sensitively explores the way a traumatic memory can seep through a life in the same way that poisoned groundwater can taint a piece of land.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2018
Barnard once again evokes a grubby, gothic landscape that'll get right under your fingernails. It'll stay there for weeks.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2018
There are occasional fine, touching moments but, for the most part, it's as heavy-going as it is heavy-handed and some aspects are plain odd.
| Feb 22, 2018
Despite a sadly muddled finale, this is a superior drama, led by Wilson's steely and focused performance and cleanly, concisely directed by Barnard.
| Feb 22, 2018
A muddy misstep from an otherwise notable talent.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2018
This is a powerful film with a grinding intensity about it. Light relief it isn't but Dark River still has quite an impact.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2018
Everything feels generic; from the grey-clouded gorgeous countryside (belying Barnard's stated aversion to putting nature's beauty on a pedestal) to the characters summed up by their tendentiously themed pasts.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2018
The power of Barnard's visionary style shines through regardless but this will go down in the annals of film history as one of her lesser works.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2018
This is a wilder, bigger thing than just another farmyard sink drama. There may be little you haven't seen elsewhere, but there's no denying the skill here.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2018
Wilson and Stanley are both excellent performers and they are the mainstays of a valuable piece of work, but I felt the ending was contrived and a bit grandiloquent.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2017
A moving, North of England-set portrait of marginalized working-class cultures and the resilience of damaged children.
| Sep 13, 2017