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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    Negret brings personal experience to the material; his own family endured two ordeals by kidnapping, and he works up a painfull convincing sense of sweaty desperation.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nathan Lee
    70
    Admirably tough-minded if overstuffed, Towards Darkness delivers on its foreboding title.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    The Colombian tourist board won't be too happy about Antonio Negret's intermittently compelling thriller, which presents his native country as a cesspool of corruption and violence.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    50
    A convoluted bilingual thriller about a kidnapping in Colombia, Towards Darkness may be too clever for its own good. Frosh director Antonio Negret intertwines so many disparate characters, each with a flashback-studded backstory, that after a while the exhausted viewer, assaulted by sudden time-jumps, agitated handheld camerawork and tediously protracted suspense, ceases to care.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Laura Kern
    40
    Antonio Negret's sloppily executed film plays like a car commercial and a military-recruitment promo.
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