an excellent addition to the "THEY KNEW!!" genre.

a jet black legal drama about slowly realizing that we all live in the jaundiced, sickly glow of american institutions and a new stone cold classic of ruin-the-rest-of-your-night cinema. a foundational, “respected” corporation can intentionally poison every single one of us for decades and if we sacrifice our bodies & spend decades of our lives in the monotonous hell of proper channel resistance we just might be able to cost them one half of one year’s profit. im really taken with how haynes managed to take something that on a scene-by-scene basis doesn’t appear to stray too far from unassuming biopic territory but in look and mood feels almost apocalyptic. sorta like if The Insider was shot like a horror movie; a benihana logo has never been more terrifying.

this was so good except for the guy next to us literally sucking on his candies so loud and humming and coughing. please go back home and watch bonanza or something sir

love me some david fincher yellow/cyan color grading and big, evil corporations getting exposed in my movies

Not without its issues (pacing, occasional histrionics, a little too much digital teal & orange), but I'm totally on board for all of it because this is some classic auteurist gun-for-hire smuggling. Exactly how you do this stuff.

82

A Todd Haynes/Ed Lachman collaboration about corporate conspiracy and the (still ongoing) DuPont public health crisis, starring Mark Ruffalo.

You should already be interested if you haven't watched it already. If nothing else, this is an Important Movie that never loses its grip as a sickly, infuriating experience.

Dark Waters contains the single most elegant shot of a Benihana in the history of the American cinema

Holy hell this rocked, absolutely outrageous that this didn’t really catch any steam. If our country wants to have any hope of moving towards a better future, then Hollywood must return to the glorious era of 90s legal thrillers

Second viewing for a thing I'm writing for Vulture. Not without its stock docudrama elements, but what lingers is an almost tactile sense of the cancerous rot that's taken hold of the culture. This is no mere exposé of Dupont knowingly poisoning people, but about the corporate tentacles that grip every aspect of our lives. And it comes through in the *look* of the film, too: You could turn the sound off and Ed Lachman's cinematography would tell a story just with its color palette.

Ruffalo rules. DuPont sucks

Admirable project for Mark Ruffalo who shows what a difference one man can make. Corporate America shown in all its corruption and why the rich become so rich.

FUCK all corporations, and I mean all of them, no corporation is good they can only be good for corporations, the surplus value and economic exploitation do not allow for ethical corporate structures to exist and the system is entirely set up to enforce this.

Annoying cos it’s a great story but little dumb things made it boring- and the grading ffs they didn’t need to go that hard on the blue moodiness

One of those movies where really, really competent people do their jobs really, really well.

THEY KNEW!! also i can’t believe this wasn’t discussed when it was released

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

An edutainment message movie but one that highlights the need for the EPA and corporate corruption on a distressing scale. A mind changer though

Seems to me, a limey, that America doesn’t want anyone to stay safe and healthy.

The depressing blue colour grade on this film is what I see in every day life.

9.0 - very intense and interesting. Every second in the film plays a part and the ending is justified for the time you spend watching the film

Anne Hathaway deserves better than underwritten, long-suffering wife roles and if any director should know that, it's Todd Haynes.