This dank, dark and disturbing psychological horror film is a remake of a Hideo Nakata chiller, but the film it most evokes is Roman Polanski's Repulsion, another tale of mental instability and bad real estate.

| Mar 14, 2018

Interesting and unsettling, but never terrifying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2005

Dark Water is a failure as a horror movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2005

It's about as terrifying as having Sigmund and the Sea Monsters for neighbors, only minus the genuinely horrific Sid and Marty Krofft costumes.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 18, 2005

Full Review | Jul 14, 2005

It fails to deliver the narrative thrill twists its origins would promise.

| Jul 12, 2005

Working from and intensely emotional screenplay by Fearless scribe Rafael Yglesias, this is a superbly internalized drama intent on dealing with the harshest of human sensations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2005

Like so many recent thrillers of this ilk, many of them in some way exploiting the 'innocence' of childhood -- the dumb and unpleasant Hide and Seek springs to mind -- Dark Water falls apart in the wind-down.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2005

A tasteful but unremitting bummer and yet one more case of an Oscar-winning actress proving that she can still do the kinds of disposable movies big awards are supposedly meant to banish from your résume forever.

| Jul 8, 2005

Dark Water has more substance and a more interesting look than many horror films, but the familiar elements of the story disappoint.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Working from a premise that's not only thin but transparent, Salles struggles mightily to generate tension in any other way possible.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2005

This is an eerie, relentlessly grim, invasive little movie -- a tone poem of despair that seeps into you like the damp.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2005

A mostly faithful adaptation of a scary little story: A mother and her young daughter, needing to save money as the mother negotiates an unhappy divorce, move into a depressing, dark apartment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2005

It's not bad, horrible or embarrassing; it just doesn't completely add up or send people out feeling like they've seen something special.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Walter Salles' haunted-apartment thriller Dark Water doesn't sink like a stone, but for a movie with such a pedigreed director and a cast headed by Jennifer Connelly, it doesn't exactly float much above mediocrity, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Seductively spooky.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Salles seems too uncomfortable with the fantastic to get full value from the creeps and jumps his camerawork delivers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2005

[Salles] has managed to create a movie that's pretty bleak for a Hollywood -- especially Disney -- thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Dark Water is a murky business indeed, painfully sloooow, absurdly derivative and just plain embarrassing for the wealth of talented people involved in it.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jul 8, 2005

In a time when American acting icons like Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda take roles in junk and call it good fun, Connelly shows us how an actor can respect commercial moviemaking and her craft.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2005