Fresh
The third offering from Flynn Dark Places does its best to stir a multitude of emotions within us, but in doing so, the film feels contrived and hurried.
Miriam Di Nunzio, Chicago Sun-Times
Dark Places
In 1985, her entire family was murdered. 30 years later, the truth emerges.
2015 · 1h 53m · R
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Overview
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The mystery itself eventually becomes tiresome and shrug-worthy, even as the film breathlessly racks up the revelations.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner marshaled a top-tier cast and commanded them to tromp across Flynn's intelligent bestseller like investigators muddying a crime scene.
Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
While there is still some flicking at the book's more human themes of best-intentioned familial deceit, forgiveness and healing, they're all but blotted out by Gilles Paquet-Brenner's slapdash direction.
Stacey May Fowles, Globe and Mail
Rotten
The mystery unspools slowly, with so many different twists and turns it's impossible to figure it out ahead of time. That's fine. By the time you get there, however, you probably won't care anymore.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
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