Minamata
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: February 11, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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8
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0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Film ThreatAlex SavelievFeb 15, 2022
Coupled with a few inspired moments and an earnestness that’s hard to dismiss, the film manages, just barely, to stand out from the rest. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 28, 2020
Minamata is a forthright, heartfelt movie, an old-fashioned “issue picture” with a worthwhile story to tell about how communities can stand up to overweening corporations and how journalists dedicated to truthful news can help them. Read full review
50
Original-CinLiam LaceyApr 4, 2022
The trouble starts with the script, which wobbles between an investigative thriller and a psychological study. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 11, 2022
Leading man Johnny Depp is up to the challenge, and he gives a finely tuned performance here that kind of feels like his first "old man" turn, and he’s matched by a charming piece of work from Minami, but Minamata is weighed down by self-important direction that loses the human beings in this story by prioritizing the headlines. Read full review
50
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyFeb 28, 2020
Altogether solemn in tone, the film is undeniably handsome, with DoP Benoît Delhomme steeping the Japanese landscape in melancholy atmospherics, but Minimata tends to over-aestheticise its material, not least in the too-elegant recreations of Smith’s black and white imagery. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungFeb 28, 2020
Director Andrew Levitas and his co-screenwriters dramatize a riveting story using a mass of groan-worthy genre clichés that ill-serve the truth they are trying to recreate. Read full review
42
IndieWireEric KohnFeb 28, 2020
Here and there, Minamata tells a bracing story of corporate malfeasance and bracing advocacy for the underclass, but even the occasional poignant observation can’t salvage a movie trying this hard to tug every heartstring at its disposal. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 28, 2020
The film isn’t a write-off – well-handled, it could have had the sober dramatic voltage of Todd Haynes’s Dark Waters, which relates a now-familiar story of corporate malfeasance in a different place and time. The problems are of style, focus and intent. Read full review
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