Dark Places

2015

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A24 | Release Date: August 7, 2015 | R

Starring: Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult

Summary: Libby Day (Charlize Theron) was only seven years old when her mother and two sisters were brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. In court, the traumatized child pointed the finger at her brother, Ben (Tye Sheridan), and her testimony put the troubled 16-year-old in prison for life. Twenty-five years later, a broke and desperate… Expand

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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Lisa Nesselson

Apr 7, 2015

Slouching Theron is absolutely convincing as a self-loathing haunted soul with zero ambition. As the town’s “rich slut,” Chloe Grace Moretz gives yet another pitch-perfect performance. Both actresses elevate the material, making a somewhat far-fetched story both believable and enjoyable. Read full review

Katie Rife

Aug 6, 2015

Aside from the A-list cast, there isn’t much to differentiate Dark Places from an especially grim TV movie. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Apr 7, 2015

This plot-heavy suspense flick loses some of the book’s originality in translation while failing to channel its sense of Midwestern malaise. But it keeps the guessing game going long enough to compensate for some otherwise shallow characterizations, while Theron offers up an earnest and downbeat turn that says a lot with little dialogue Read full review

The PlaylistJessica Kiang

Jun 19, 2015

Without the spiky irony of Flynn’s first-person writing (the enjoyable Jim Thompson-esque noirisms that pepper the novel, like “I have a meanness in me, real as an organ” occur only rarely) Paquet-Brenner shears the text of any richness, to have it unfold instead in a relentlessly grim manner, less intriguing and evocative than straight-up dour. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Aug 6, 2015

[Paquet-Brenner] squanders Dark Places’ icky setup for a rote investigation to find the real killer, a revelation greeted not with a “What?!” but with a “Whatever.” Read full review

RogerEbert.comBrian Tallerico

Aug 7, 2015

It makes sense that another of Flynn’s novels, the sinister Dark Places, would get the cinematic treatment as well, although this failed exercise could be used comparatively with “Gone Girl” as a What Not to Do cinematic lesson. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Aug 12, 2015

One of 2015’s dullest. Read full review

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FrancisDG

Jun 1, 2019

A disturbing movie that is able to make the viewer watch it till the end, always full of tension.

LeZee

Jul 14, 2016

When the truth and the consciousness of the world failed to work together.

Based on the book of the same name, a story about a dreadful massacre in the rural America where a young girl lived to testify against her own brother and then she never recovered from it. So many years later, the… Expand

TVJerry

Aug 12, 2015

A 7 year old daughter survives the brutal murder of her mother and 2 sisters. Fast forward to the adult version (Charlize Theron), when she’s contacted by people who believe in the innocence of her brother, who was jailed for the crime. The film alternates between her search for the truth… Expand

Friskytiger81

Aug 9, 2015

The story is interesting, but this lacks the technical polish of Flynn’s Gone Girl with director David Fincher. It should be noted that she adapted her screenplay, as opposed to Dark Places, where she did not. The script suffered and the edited and inferior photography did not help. Editing… Expand

JLuis_001

Sep 6, 2017

I’m fan of the genre and I can not help it, maybe for that reason I enjoy this movie a little bit more and especially because it does not turn out to be a full disappointment, what happens is that its plot desperately neede a twist and maybe a more macabre perspective in particular for the… Expand

eagleeyeviking

Apr 24, 2017

Dark Places has its rich source material laid down in front of it, but only adapts and rushes plot twists and turns while leaving out the complexities and nuances leading up to them. The characters, which are developed so thoroughly so that one can understand their motivations and doings in… Expand

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