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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 22 Nov 2019

Beyond the fundamental horror of corporate greed trumping public-health concerns, the movie -- while often bleak and unsettling -- does find…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 21 Nov 2019

Mr…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Nov 2019

The combination of Ruffalo’s quietly intense performance and Haynes’ direction illuminates both what drives him and what the cost can be…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 21 Nov 2019

Where Haynes excels is in teasing out the personal and professional connections that mingle throughout…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Nov 2019

You do feel Haynes’s touch now and again, particularly in the sense of menace that seeps into a crepuscular law office and in the everyday…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 18 Nov 2019

The director Todd Haynes’s artistry is hardly detectable in this environmental thriller, yet the film, based on a true story, nonetheless…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 15 Nov 2019

Of course we all hate insidious environmental destruction; it’s valuable to have movies about that. This one works fine enough…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 14 Nov 2019

As legal dramas go, it’s quite good; as a Todd Haynes film, you struggle to see the talent for which he’s known…

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By Joshua Rowin (3) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Nov 2019

Todd Haynes’s film intermittently hits upon a few original ways of representing its ripped-from-the-headlines mandate…

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By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 Nov 2019

While Dark Waters often suffers mightily for being so inert, it always manages to circumvent lulls by embracing Bilott’s persistence, which…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Nov 2019

What gives Dark Waters its singular texture is that Todd Haynes (“Carol,” “Far From Heaven”), who has never made a drama remotely like…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Nov 2019

Successfully restraining himself throughout from getting fancy or experimental, Haynes has intently devoted himself to the story and his actors,…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 13 Nov 2019

The subtle brilliance of its mise-en-scene, from 1980s Ohio boardrooms and rubber-chicken dinners to all-black wait staff and the casual discrimination…

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By Luke Hicks (31) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Nov 2019

It’ll be much too easy to bail on what is a very slow-building first 30 minutes for those watching on a streaming service in the near future…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 13 Nov 2019

In Haynes’s psychologically and atmospherically astute compositions and careful nursing of the emotional impact on Bilott and wife Sarah…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 13 Nov 2019

As a platform for Bilot’s efforts and why they deserve a national profile, the movie has a sincere sense of purpose…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Nov 2019

These Waters never quite run as strong or as deep as they should…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Nov 2019

Dark Waters would likely have been a forgettable mediocrity in anybody’s hands, given its fact-based, muckraking limitations…

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