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Dark Water (2005)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:15
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: All the atmospherics in Dark Water can't make up for the lack of genuine scares.
Theatrical Release:Jul 8, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $25,416,400
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Walter Salles ("Central Station," "The Motorcycle Diaries") helms and Academy Award®-winner Jennifer Connelly stars in DARK WATER, a psychological thriller featuring a stellar... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Walter Salles
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Reviews for Dark Water
Top CriticIt fails to deliver the narrative thrill twists its origins would promise.
07/12/05
Top CriticLike so many recent thrillers of this ilk, many of them in some way exploiting the 'innocence' of childhood -- the dumb and unpleasant Hide and Seek springs to mind -- Dark Water falls apart in the wind-down.
07/08/05
Top CriticA tasteful but unremitting bummer and yet one more case of an Oscar-winning actress proving that she can still do the kinds of disposable movies big awards are supposedly meant to banish from your résume forever.
07/08/05
Top CriticDark Water has more substance and a more interesting look than many horror films, but the familiar elements of the story disappoint.
07/08/05
Top CriticWorking from a premise that's not only thin but transparent, Salles struggles mightily to generate tension in any other way possible.
07/08/05
Top CriticIt's not bad, horrible or embarrassing; it just doesn't completely add up or send people out feeling like they've seen something special.
07/08/05
Top CriticIt's good to see [Salles] getting a chance to direct in Hollywood, and pleasant to have a scary movie that features adults and a fine, vulnerable actress.
07/08/05
Top CriticWalter Salles' haunted-apartment thriller Dark Water doesn't sink like a stone, but for a movie with such a pedigreed director and a cast headed by Jennifer Connelly, it doesn't exactly float much above mediocrity, either.
07/08/05
Top CriticSeductively spooky.
07/08/05
Top CriticSalles seems too uncomfortable with the fantastic to get full value from the creeps and jumps his camerawork delivers.
07/08/05
Top Critic[Salles] has managed to create a movie that's pretty bleak for a Hollywood -- especially Disney -- thriller.
07/08/05
Top CriticDark Water is a murky business indeed, painfully sloooow, absurdly derivative and just plain embarrassing for the wealth of talented people involved in it.
07/08/05
Top CriticIn a time when American acting icons like Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda take roles in junk and call it good fun, Connelly shows us how an actor can respect commercial moviemaking and her craft.
07/08/05
Top CriticNarrowly focused and appropriately claustrophobic, Dark Water creates believability by balancing life's small annoyances with darker, more malignant events.
07/08/05
Top CriticThe film's greatest mystery turns out to be: Why, with so much talent, does Dark Water never cross the tipping point?
07/08/05
Top CriticUntil it sputters to a nonsensical close, the film is a spooky entertainment.
07/08/05
Top CriticA distressing, subtly suspenseful film full of emotional resonance.
07/07/05
Top CriticThere's something that never quite works about the film, which can't seem to decide if it's all in Dahlia's head, all in the spirit world or all in her pipes.
07/07/05
Top CriticDark Water has plenty of creepy moments, but few scares, and it becomes bogged down in setup.
07/07/05
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