The under-appreciated 'Dark Waters' is Todd Haynes at his most despairing

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The under-appreciated 'Dark Waters' is Todd Haynes at his most despairing
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Todd Haynes' fact-based drama 'Dark Waters,' starring Mark Ruffalo as a lawyer exposing corporate and chemical malfeasance, deserves more attention.

), the attorney who took on the chemical giant DuPont and its horrific history of corporate and environmental malfeasance.

As a scenario straight out of the muckraker-drama playbook that includes “A Civil Action” and “Erin Brockovich,” it doesn’t sound like an intuitive choice of material for the director Todd Haynes, aptly described by my colleagueBut that talent for defying expectations served Haynes well on a movie that only looks conventional in its broadest narrative outlines.

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