A tale of the horrors caused by capitalism and how it empowers people into other avenues of corruption...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2021

Dark Waters is as gripping as it is terrifying, and it'll claw into your consciousness in the same way that poisonous forever chemicals have claimed squatter's rights in your body.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2020

...by focusing on the individuals involved, and laying out a compelling moral vision, Dark Waters also works as a powerful metaphor for those cases when persistence and compassion have pushed society forward.

| Mar 20, 2020

The groundswell of dogged determination propelling this environmental thriller is so powerful that it deals effortlessly with the knotty tangle of facts packed into its plot. Much of this is down to the film's star and initiator, Mark Ruffalo.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2020

The subject deserved better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2020

Ruffalo's performance alone is worth the price of a ticket...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 3, 2020

The film fizzes with righteous fury right the way through to its bitter, unhappy ending.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2020

In Dark Waters, [Todd Haynes] bathes his audience in pure terror like very few other directors could.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2020

Haynes presents a sedate yet immeasurably precise court-room drama, which seems far less concerned with the minutiae of the story itself than with Billot's own redemptive arc

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2020

True to its title, this is a murky pool of a movie, and Mark Ruffalo is the man on the bank, poking its surface with a stick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2020

A movie that works marvellously well within its own generic terms...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2020

The Bilotts make compelling viewing, straight arrows losing the scales from their eyes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2020

Already depressed that modern life is killing us all? Prepare not to be cheered up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2020

This one stays with you, tightly-coiled and quietly horrifying.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 25, 2020

A bizarrely strait-laced project for Todd Haynes, Dark Waters lacks dramatic oomph but compensates via a well-mounted telling of a terrifying story, driven by still contemporary concerns and a convincing central turn by Mark Ruffalo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2020

Mark Ruffalo gives one of his best performances in a long time in this movie.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 13, 2019

It's the rare American film that trusts in both the intelligence and patience of its audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2019

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.

| Original Score: B + | Dec 6, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2019

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.

| Original Score: B | Dec 1, 2019