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Dark Places

2015

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christina Hendricks ...

5.4

3,133

Thriller. Drama. Mystery A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day by a secret society obsessed with solving notorious crimes.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"Theron is absolutely convincing as a self-loathing haunted soul (...) Chloe Grace Moretz gives yet another pitch-perfect performance. Both actresses elevate the material, making a somewhat far-fetched story both believable and enjoyable"	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"[The movie] 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"	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"Without the spiky irony of Flynn's first-person writing Paquet-Brenner shears the text of any richness, to have it unfold instead in a relentlessly grim manner, less intriguing and evocative"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"This Kansas-set potboiler would benefit from a few good twists (...) There’s no denying that Gillian Flynn’s second bigscreen adaptation is a relative disappointment"	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Dark Places just becomes an overstuffed, low-simmer potboiler with too many improbable detours and overly convenient twists"	NEG
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"A convoluted, airless procedural that generates practically no suspense"	NEG

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