Dark Waters does not revolutionise legal drama...[but] the passion of Mark Ruffalo, who is also an active environmentalist, does come through in the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Bilott is a scrappy plugger, a Midwestern man with a strong sense of right and wrong who simply cannot walk away from a case that puts every aspect of his own life at risk.

Full Review | Aug 26, 2023

Rob Bilott can provide an explanation, and that’s the flip side to his ultimate revelation in Dark Waters: we are our own destructors, and only we can protect ourselves. It’s a notion both horrific and inspiring, just like the film itself.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2023

Dark Waters is a film that is hard to watch, it made me angry and depressed, but it also left me hopeful because it showed me people like Rob Bilott exist.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Mar 8, 2023

Dark Waters is ultimately a paean to tenacity. It argues that heroism is not merely a moment when one person rises up to do the right thing. It's the ability to stick to your values over a long period of time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2022

A screenplay capable of turning a somber drama into a thriller... the best legal film since Erin Brockovich. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 6, 2022

Haynes’s film is a wide-eyed look at a corporation’s fight to keep the money they made off the people that made them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

You come to see Mark Ruffalo speechify against a large company doing Very Bad Things, and you get exactly that. Nothing more, nothing less.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 13, 2022

The most successful part of Dark Waters is how it portrays American society as one that fears doing the right thing because of the repercussions, while it's far easier just to keep quiet, blissfully unaware, and toe the line.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2022

This is one of the first films in a long time that feels genuinely "important" in a non-partisan and unbiased way.

Full Review | Original Score: 90/100 | Jan 14, 2022

Grim but engaging.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 12, 2021

Dark Waters calls upon all of us to do what's right to help those around us even if that causes discomfort and suffering.

Full Review | Aug 12, 2021

How a screenplay this shoddy makes it to one of our greatest film-makers unmolested I can't fathom, but it's poisoned from the bottom up -- knee deep cliches sanded clean of substance

Full Review | Jul 14, 2021

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

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

Dark Waters has the filmmakers, actors, and story that should have made for one of the better films of the year. Instead, it's a mostly forgettable outing that doesn't do justice to its blockbuster revelations.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2021

It is geared to outage and infuriate, to underscore that the big guys don't always win. It is marred by a leisurely approach and some paper-thin characterizations, but the David and Goliath story is compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2021

For the most part [Haynes] strips the movie down to process and righteous anger.

Full Review | Jan 28, 2021

A must-see classical American tragedy that courses with sorrow but is never hopeless.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2021

Regardless of the importance of the picture, the execution prevents it from being a project that will reach an appropriately wide audience; it's just not that engaging.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2020

A fantastic central performance by Ruffalo, this is a film that will haunt you for a long while after.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2020