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07/07/05
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Dark Water (2005)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:66
Rotten:78
Average Rating:5.5/10
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
It's more Kramer vs. Kramer than Jennifer vs. the Dead Kid in the Sink... still, too-familiar territory lacking an original ghost story.
07/07/05
A great deal of nothing happens . . . before the reveal that isn’t so much a twist as pretty much what everyone was expecting from about five minutes into the proceedings
07/07/05
Torpid, trite and not the least bit scary — just unrelentingly unpleasant — (and) the most contemptible kind of cinema horror: putting little kids in peril for cheap thrills.
07/07/05
[T]he relentless psychological desolation that rumbles ominously throughout is unique, and elevates it above most of the genre.
07/06/05
A moldy, third-generation retread of The Ring.
07/06/05
Salles has crafted a moody, even gothic, psychological thriller that never fails to hold the viewer's interest.
07/06/05
Conventions aside the film establishes a palpable sense of suspicion and dread and manages to retain it throughout.
07/06/05
Salles realizes the rotten dank desperation of her life so vividly that he has made, in effect, the first collapse-of-the- middle-class horror movie.
07/06/05
Top CriticAs a horror film, Dark Water is too much of a retread of recent films, but as a well-acted psychological thriller, it shines.
07/06/05
The strong cast, intriguing visuals and subtle scripting keep things introspective and unsettling, until Hollywood takes over.
06/29/05
A classy ghost story is just the ticket in a summer of crass jolts.
06/16/05
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