A Chilling True Story of Corporate Indifference

The pensive legal movie was once a Hollywood standby, reliably delivering courtroom tension, grandstanding performances, and a satisfying assurance of justice that was only enhanced when the story behind the script turned out to be true. Todd Haynes’s new film, ,fits that bill: It chronicles the Cincinnati ongoing efforts, beginning in the ’90s, to expose how the company DuPont for decades after learning that they caused fatal diseases. As ais interesting enough. But around the hard work and do-goodery, Haynes also provides a sense of crushing dread—the kind of unsolvable paranoia these procedure-bound movies usually work to counter.