Dark Waters's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
Todd Haynes has made the first corporate thriller that?s a call to action because you?ll emerge from it feeling anything but safe.
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.
The Playlist
Haynes?a passionate, lifelong devotee of environmental justice and institutional transparency, as first seen through ?Safe??does a terrific job conveying the depression and hopelessness that comes with taking on sick, greedy, inhumane, Earth-devouring institutions.
The Wrap
Though a solid example of saber-rattling, justice-centered docudrama, 'Dark Waters' is also a more brooding effort, attuned more to the reality of never-ending battle than the epiphanies that come with bringing wrongdoing to light.
Entertainment Weekly
It?s a decent movie in its own grim (...) a whistleblower movie that doesn?t swerve directly into simple absolution at the end. But these Waters never quite run as strong or as deep as they should.
Indiewire
Ruffalo?s passion project is a didactic tale of corporate malfeasance, but its environmental concerns have a profound sense of purpose.