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Metascore
35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversIn a movie with more subtext than "Rosemary's Baby," nearly everyone, including Tim Roth as Dahlia's lawyer, harbors secrets. Salles unleashes a torrent of suspense for one purpose: to plumb the violence of the mind.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonAs a sheer ghostly thriller, it's mostly a spell-binder, but I was disappointed at the ending.
- 75PremierePeter DebrugePremierePeter DebrugeEven as Dark Water's horror-movie component flounders, a different, arguably better kind of thriller emerges.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA shudder-by-numbers pseudo-J-horror gothic, full of supernatural stunts you feel as if you've seen before the movie even gets to them.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis picture doesn't have deep enough currents to succeed as a psychological thriller and, as a ghost story, there are times when it has trouble treading water.
- 63Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyWhile his movie lacks the psychological resonance of "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Sixth Sense," it easily equals their creep-out quotient.
- 60The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinDark Water devolves into something resembling genre schlock, albeit the kind featuring zesty supporting performances from the classy, Oscar-nominated likes of John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, and Pete Postlethwaite.
- 60Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanThere's something that never quite works about the film.
- 50VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyWell-crafted but thoroughly unsuspenseful.
- 40L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThe movie is prettily shot by Almodóvar collaborator Affonso Beato, but no amount of tastefully desaturated color or imaginary friends going whoo-whoo in the deserted apartment upstairs can save this lumbering echt-thriller from fatal tedium.