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- 2015
- R
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
- 2015
- R
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
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 despera...
Directed By: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Written By: Gillian Flynn, Occultum Luciferus
- 2015
- R
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
- 2015
- R
- A24
- 1 h 53 m
Dark Places
39
6.1
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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 despera...
Directed By: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Written By: Gillian Flynn, Occultum Luciferus
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
39
21% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
42% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
37% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
39
21% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
42% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
37% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
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.
Dark Places does its best to stir a multitude of emotions within us, but in doing so, the film feels contrived and hurried.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
6.1
44% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
42% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
15% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
6.1
44% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
42% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
15% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
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 case takes a new twist when some young crime solving enthusiastic shows interest in it and that's where the rest of the narration takes its direction.
The suspense was the highlight, though, feels like not a complicated puzzle. Brilliant writing for sure. You know, from a novel to screen is not an easy task. Sometimes book fans and sometimes film fanatics will be disappointed, but this was a good film. In my opinion, it was an underrated film. Some people are disappointed, because mainly their anticipation was too high.
It was the tall South African beauty, Charlize Theron's show. However the others came into the play when the narration was in the flashback. Since the film 'The Hunt', it is really scaring to see the little kids as the prime witness in a major trial. Because of their lack of the consciousness of the world, the truth struggles. This film was kind of similar, but only the final act resolves everything. Until then, as a viewer it is about trying to link all the possibilities. Surely a fine film for the one watch.
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It’s never pushed far enough. Instead, Dark Places just becomes an overstuffed, low-simmer potboiler with too many improbable detours and overly convenient twists.
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.
Dark Places lacks the gloomy meditative quality that Gone Girl rode to success on, with none of the grace or subtlety necessary in making a convoluted thriller a watchable enterprise.
Paquet-Brenner has assembled a talented cast.... Yet he elicits mostly unmemorable performances from just about everyone involved.
One of 2015’s dullest.
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 and the events that led up to the that traumatic night. The narrative takes its time to unfold, but maintains interest thru strong direction and compelling performances. Even though Gillian Flynn's ("Gone Girl") plot is busy with coincidences, it's still interesting and even manages a bit of suspense in the final scenes.
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2015 crime and mystery movie. A girl whose family was murdered in her childhood is the only eyewitness, and she gave a statement or was given a statement in the same way her brother did. She lives a messy life when she grows up. He comes face to face with his own past, from which he escaped, with the person who takes it as a hobby to unravel some mysterious murders.
Even the fact that Charlize Theron is the lead role in the movie can't save the movie from being middle class. Both lack of emotion and low dose of tension. The Unforgivable movie starring Sandra Bullock with a similar theme is a few shirts better than this. But in this movie, he makes himself watch by making him curious. The difficult choice of a desperate mother is the saddest point in the movie.
There is a slight sexual element in one scene in the movie.
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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 development of the murders, but the movie lacks that. But beyond that the plot and clues will keep you interested although the end may leave you with a bad taste.
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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 feels confusing at times, but some of that would be a challenge as the story jumps around in time more than most. I was surprised to see Flynn's Gone Girl follow-up with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached not get more of a release, but now I know why. The film as a whole does not work.
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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 the novel, are caricatures of themselves in the film. Finally, it just lacks that infectious touch that turns a dark and twisted screenplay, such as Gone Girl, into such an addicting film.
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Production Company
Exclusive Media Group,
Mandalay Vision,
Cuatro Plus Films,
Da Vinci Media Ventures,
Daryl Prince Productions,
Denver and Delilah Productions,
Hugo Productions,
Straightwire Entertainment Group
Release Date Aug 7, 2015
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating R
Tagline In 1985, her entire family was murdered. 30 years later, the truth emerges.
