Dark Waters

    Dark Waters
    2019

    Synopsis

    A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

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    Cast

    • Mark RuffaloRobert Bilott
    • Anne HathawaySarah Bilott
    • Tim RobbinsTom Terp
    • Bill PullmanHarry Dietzler
    • Bill CampWilbur Tennant
    • Victor GarberPhil Donnelly
    • Mare WinninghamDarlene Kiger
    • William Jackson HarperJames Ross
    • Louisa KrauseCarla Pfeiffer
    • Kevin CrowleyLarry Winter

    Recommandations

    • 90

      Variety

      What gives Dark Waters its singular texture is that Todd Haynes (“Carol,” “Far From Heaven”), who has never made a drama remotely like this, colors in the scenario with an underlying dimension of personalized obsession.
    • 80

      Screen Daily

      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 against women, beds the story in the awful truth.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Successfully restraining himself throughout from getting fancy or experimental, Haynes has intently devoted himself to the story and his actors, with strong, unshowy work that ideally serves the tale being told.
    • 75

      The Playlist

      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. If they make it an hour in, they’ll be pleased to know that John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is prominently featured, as any West Virginia film seems obligated to boast. But outside of that, the lack of respite is rightly suffocating and will be unfortunately repelling for those who approach film as a mindless escape.
    • 75

      The Film Stage

      While Dark Waters often suffers mightily for being so inert, it always manages to circumvent lulls by embracing Bilott’s persistence, which works as an anecdote to corporate America, whose stranglehold over the country comes through in Edward Lachman’s deathly grey visuals defined by lifeless rural vistas.
    • 70

      TheWrap

      In Haynes’s psychologically and atmospherically astute compositions and careful nursing of the emotional impact on Bilott and wife Sarah (Anne Hathaway), it’s more a brittle ache of a quest than a righteous melodrama.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      These Waters never quite run as strong or as deep as they should.
    • 67

      IndieWire

      As a platform for Bilot’s efforts and why they deserve a national profile, the movie has a sincere sense of purpose. It’s a 20-year-old drama that extends into the present, and as environmental concerns continue to escalate, it couldn’t feel more contemporary.

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